Michael Lake wrote:
On a new Debian 4.0 installation I have a problem with some keyboard
characters - I have to hit the key twice for them to appear. This occurs
with the opening and closing quotes (` and ') and with the tilde ~. With
the closing quote if I enter ' followed by a space I get a plain ' but a
double '' generates what looks like one of those smart quote characters.
All other keys are fine and do generate the correct characters.
The terminal is a gnome-terminal, and keyboard was set to US and charset
ISO8859-1
via a dpkg-reconsigure console-data.
Well I have found the problem is that "dead keys" are enabled. This is what is
causing the problem above. I have done the following
dpkg-reconfigure locales
generated en_AU UTF-8
generated en_AU ISO-8859-1
set default locale to be en_AU
dpkg-reconfigure console-data
set keyboard layout = US american
set keyboard variant = standard
set keymap = Standard
Now in a non-Gnome environment like a login with no X all keys are fine !!
In Gnome environment the ~ is now a horizontal bracket thing, and the # is a pounds
sign but the quote keys are no longer dead keys.
So the problem is with Gnome settings. Now any advice is appreciated.
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Michael Lake
Computational Research Support Unit
Science Faculty, UTS
Ph: 9514 2238
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