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taafuuu

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Registered: 2023-07-26

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Tab key not working

Tab key not working on my installation.

Neither in terminal nor in vscode.

Please help!

Any guiding topic is also accepted.

Pardon my English!

Kernel: 6.1.39-1-lts

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,127

Re: Tab key not working

https://deepl.com/ (AI translator)

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

1. does "terminal" refer to the linux console or a terminal emulator in your graphical session
2. if the latter, what /is/ your graphical session?

loginctl session-status

Does the key work in the linux console?
3. Does the key generate events in

sudo libinput debug-events

or, if not, in

sudo evtest

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taafuuu

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Registered: 2023-07-26

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Re: Tab key not working

It is not working in linux console. Neither in my graphical session. I am using swaywm with wayland.

evtest: command not found

it is not appearing in ```libinput debug-events``` command

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,111

Re: Tab key not working

$ pacman -F evtest
extra/evtest 1.35-1
    usr/bin/evtest
$

install the evtest pacakge, then try again.

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taafuuu

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Registered: 2023-07-26

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Re: Tab key not working

it is also not appearing there. (in sudo evtest)

seth

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Re: Tab key not working

Try some random other distro, but most likely the key (the hardware) is dead.
You could map the otherwise completely useless capslock key there, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xmodmap

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taafuuu

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Registered: 2023-07-26

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Re: Tab key not working

I am using swaywm, on wayland. xmodmap fix is not working for that reason maybe.

maybe yes, it is a hardware issue...

EDIT: removed this line: anyways, i am closing the issue.
EDIT: I am using swaywm... on first line

Last edited by taafuuu (2023-07-28 17:33:25)

seth

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Re: Tab key not working

You'd have to derive an xkb layout, alter the key assignment there and make sway use that.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway#Keymap

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