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#1 2017-02-17 12:22:20

Quabla
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Registered: 2014-11-27
Posts: 4

[solved] Alt + Shift + <any key> no longer working

Hi,

After I ran a whole system update yesterday my keyboard does no longer recognise combinations of alt + shift + any other key.

I am running arch on a Thinkpad T460s and see the same effect when using a USB keyboard.

Combinations like alt + tab or ctrl + shift + <any key> are still working. When I try alt + shift + <anything> I get the same behaviour as I would get for alt + <the same key>, so shift is just ignored in this case.
I am using a German keyboard layout, where the right alt key is called AltGr, which represents alt + shift. Neither AltGr nor manually using alt+shift works.

The problem occurs everywhere, shell, editor, browser...

Below is some information on my locales configuration.

Any help is much appreciated.
Many thanks in advance!

localectl
   System Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
                  LANGUAGE=de_DE
                  LC_COLLATE=C
       VC Keymap: de-latin1-nodeadkeys
      X11 Layout: n/a
locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
LANGUAGE=de_DE
grep -v '^#' /etc/locale.gen
de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8  
de_DE ISO-8859-1  
de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15

Edit:

Looking at the pacman log, I found the following packages that got updated and might cause the problem:

[2017-02-16 11:09] [ALPM] upgraded libinput (1.6.0-1 -> 1.6.1-1)
[2017-02-16 11:09] [ALPM] upgraded xf86-input-libinput (0.23.0-1 -> 0.24.0-1)

Edit No. 2:

Downgrading these two packages did not help. The full pacman log can be found here:
http://pastebin.com/raw/69i7NB21

Last edited by Quabla (2017-02-17 13:33:12)

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#2 2017-02-17 13:32:58

Quabla
Member
Registered: 2014-11-27
Posts: 4

Re: [solved] Alt + Shift + <any key> no longer working

Ok this is solved when executing

setxkbmap de

.. just if anybody will experience the same problem

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