On Friday 15 May 2009, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:26:14PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:12:08PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > And it shouldn't make both keys work the same. They never have > > > worked the same for me. One is a Left Alt, the other a Right Alt. > > > > > > > > It seems I need to select the "Right Alt" option to make my > > > > > keyboard work like it used to again. I didn't have any kind > > > > > of configuration before. > > > > Now I see -- most traditional keyboard layouts are defining the right > > Alt as AltGr (including the default one). In the past console-setup > > did the same but there were some complaints from American users who > > did not like this behaviour. > > I see no good reason for that.
Note that the US keyboard layout is fairly common in a lot of other countries than the US itself. It is for example THE most common keyboard layout in the Netherlands and Dutch users very much _do_ expect to have an alt-gr key by default as it is essential to type accented letters. One option might be to define a "US international" variant that does have the alt-gr. When converting from console-data that might mean _always_ asking whether the user wants one or the other if the current setting is US. Cheers, FJP P.S. Currently I myself don't bother too much about proper kbd config for console and X.Org as I have the correct layout selected [1] in KDE and almost exclusively work in that. But for a lot of users it is important. [1] Even there I use US basic, but with some Xkb options to enable alt-gr, a 3rd level key and €. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
