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Brolaugh

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[SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

When I press S on the keyboard 's' isn't being outputed, but it registers the key being pressed and in GUI but in terminal (F1, F2, etc) it works fine.
The xfce4-keyboard-settings registers and shows the key 'S' when I bind 's' to a command.

Last edited by Brolaugh (2015-07-07 20:25:52)

Steef435

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

Welcome to the forums!

I read where you don't experience this, but where do you experience this? In X, or only in XFCE? Does it only occur with this key only or also with other keys?

Brolaugh

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

I dont experience this in the terminals that you access through pressing Alt+Ctrl+F(1-6).
And this does not occur with other keys.

Brolaugh

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

Sorry, missread you question. I know this atleast occurs in XFCE. I dont know what's X or not though.

edit: When I installed Arch my friend was helping me configure it so he just sent the commands that I was gonna type into the terminal through Skype (this was 3 days ago).

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

What's the output of

uname -a

Run 'xev' and post what does it print out when you press 's'.

Brolaugh

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

Input: uname -a
Output: Linux Mavis 4.0.7-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 30 07:50:21 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

'xev' gave the output: bash: xev: command not found
so I installed xorg-xev and ran the command.
And here's the output.
http://pastebin.com/jcPa5Mya

Brolaugh

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

I just noticed that when pressing 's' in dmenu2 it outputs the letter correctly.

TheLinuxNoob

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

Try running

localectl status

to see what your locale and keymap settings are set to.

Brolaugh

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

output:
System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: sv-latin1
      X11 Layout: sv-latin1
       X11 Model: qwerty

TheLinuxNoob

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

It looks like you have your locale set to english, but you're using a latin keyboard layout. Use

localectl list-keymaps

to list all the keymaps then copy the one that you need. Then run

localectl set-keymap --no-convert keymap

replacing keymap with the correct one that you copied earlier.

Edit: For safety reasons, I'd test the keymap with

loadkeys keymap

to make sure it works before you run the command above.

Last edited by TheLinuxNoob (2015-07-06 01:50:41)

Brolaugh

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

It didn't work.
loadkeys sv-latin1 gave the output: Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console

schizo-ri

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

I had a similar problem. Some letters didn't print. Try reseting to default all shortcuts in Settings > Keyboard > Application shortcuts.

Brolaugh

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

I had this application shortcut which was bound to '§'.

dmenu_run -l 20 -w 200 -y 18 -nb '#232c31' -nf '#6c7a80' -sf '#ac4142' -sb '#232c31' -o 0.95

rebound the function to Super L and 's' works again!

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Pressing S (lowercase) on keyboard doesn't output 's'

Glad you fixed it. Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309