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cawill

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 63

Keyboard keys not working correctly [SOLVED]

Relevant section from xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "uk"
#    Option "XkbVariant" ""

When I comment out XkbLayout all the keys on my keyboard work (windows key works, can switch to virtual terminals) but the keys are mapped wrong ( @ in the wrong place for etc) , but with the UK layout some keys don't work (windows key works, can't switch to virtual terminals etc) , so what can I do?

Last edited by cawill (2008-03-01 09:16:20)

May-C

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Registered: 2007-12-28

Posts: 83

Re: Keyboard keys not working correctly [SOLVED]

In the wiki there is following:

Option "XkbLayout" "gb"

Don't know what is correct uk or gb as I am not from the uk...

cawill

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 63

Re: Keyboard keys not working correctly [SOLVED]

In the wiki there is following:

Option "XkbLayout" "gb"

Don't know what is correct uk or gb as I am not from the uk...

Thanks a lot, that's fixed nearly all of my problems, now I can't get the pound sign to work (alt + 3) , it puts a ? instead, anybody know how to fix this?

jbromley

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 268

Re: Keyboard keys not working correctly [SOLVED]

In the wiki there is following:

Option "XkbLayout" "gb"

Don't know what is correct uk or gb as I am not from the uk...

Thanks a lot, that's fixed nearly all of my problems, now I can't get the pound sign to work (alt + 3) , it puts a ? instead, anybody know how to fix this?

Are you sure that the font you are using has a pound sign? Is your LANG environment variable set correctly for the terminal program you are using? Some terminals, when confronted with a character code for which they do not have a font character display the interrogation sign.

Regards,
j

cawill

Member

From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 63

Re: Keyboard keys not working correctly [SOLVED]

In the wiki there is following:

Don't know what is correct uk or gb as I am not from the uk...

Thanks a lot, that's fixed nearly all of my problems, now I can't get the pound sign to work (alt + 3) , it puts a ? instead, anybody know how to fix this?

Are you sure that the font you are using has a pound sign? Is your LANG environment variable set correctly for the terminal program you are using? Some terminals, when confronted with a character code for which they do not have a font character display the interrogation sign.

Regards,
j

Ah, yes, it was a font issue, thanks for helping me out on that one .