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. > > 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. Have you had any updates recently, check! Ubuntu != Debian why are you citing this? regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
