Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Emanoil Kotsev <delop...@yahoo.com> > wrote: >> Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >>> Hello: >>> >>> After a recent testing upgrade (I do it daily, but this happened two >>> days ago), my right-Alt key was not working properly. Eg, in >>> Iceweasel, Alt-left should go to the previous page. With the right >>> Alt key, nothing happened; with the left Alt key, it behaved as >>> expected. Googling revealed that, in Ubuntu, the right alt key >>> "chooses 3rd level", but that did not seem to be so here when I >>> checked System/Preferences/Keyboard. But selecting the option "Right >>> Alt key never chooses 3rd level" under the "Key to choose 3rd level" >>> option appears to have corrected the problem.
This configurations are done installing/updateing xorg-conf and console. I think (as far as I remember) you define the behavior when setting up the keyboard (by choosing language and model) and still (I'm using kde) it behaves normally - are you running kde3 or kde4? >>> >>> I never had this problem before; is Debian making some eurocentric >>> presumptions (use of 3rd level on the keyboard) in its defaults? I >>> have no objection to that, except that when I select a US keyboard I >>> would not expect those presumptions to operate! >>> >>> Patrick >> >> right alt has special meaning on some keyboards and it depends on your >> Xserver, desktop or console. > > None of which I changed. but updating daily - so the update is the cause and not you ;-) > >> >> Have you had any updates recently, check! Ubuntu != Debian why are you >> citing this? > > I am well aware that Ubuntu is not Debian - I cited it because it was > about the only thing that Googling turned up on the problem. And, as > it turns out, the solution was related! Did you notice that? yes noticed - it's normal - :-) ubuntu's alpha debian testers (my opinion) and we make the profit - but it's not always true. > > I posted in the hopes my information might be of help to people who > experienced the same issue that I did, oh, I don't know, to maybe save > them some time tracking it down? I'm sorry it caused you a snit. > > Patrick No, no problem at all - just didn't get the motivation why you are exactly writing it. However for most of the people right ALT is very useful and also I don't undrstand how you are able to press right ALT and the arrowkeys at the same time (without finger acrobatics) - are you on a notebook? regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org