Public bug reported:
I am reporting this for the 7.10 version. The problem is possibly
noticeable only if non-us keyboard is chosen as default when installing
Ubuntu. In my case, I chose Slovenian keyboard layout as default and
later added another keyboard layout - U.S. English. When I switched to
US-layout in gnome, I noticed that pressing the 'ž' key, which is on the
same key as backslash on US keyboard, still produces 'ž'. Other keys
worked. I quickly found the solution on the web, and confirmed the
problem after I checked the symbols file /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us. This
file is missing a symbol definition for the backslash (BKSL) key.
Adding the following line to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us after AD12 line
solves the problem:
key <BKSL> { [ backslash, bar ] };
If US layout is chosen by default, and no other keyboard layout is later
added, I suspect the problem is not noticeable, since the backslash
key+symbol are initialized before the keymap file is applied - the
keyboard of course works even if you don't start X (and when the file is
applied, after X is loaded, I am guessing that the definitions are
merged with the already present mapping).
** Affects: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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backslash symbol is not defined in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us (in the "basic" set)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175114
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