On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Emanoil Kotsev <delop...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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.
None of which I changed. > > Have you had any updates recently, check! Ubuntu != Debian why are you > citing this? I am well aware that Ubuntu is not Debian - I cited it because it was about the only thing that Googling turned up on the problem. And, as it turns out, the solution was related! Did you notice that? I posted in the hopes my information might be of help to people who experienced the same issue that I did, oh, I don't know, to maybe save them some time tracking it down? I'm sorry it caused you a snit. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
