Package: debian-maintainers Severity: normal It seems to be a problem with the correct package dependencies not being included in lxqt package. The problem is solved when installing manually these packages:
xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-libinput xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-kbd In tty session the keyboard is working. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.9 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)