>-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Re: Keyboard language randomly changes to Arabic(?) >Local Time: 12 January 2018 1:09 PM >UTC Time: 12 January 2018 02:09 >From: d...@debian.org >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >On Thu, 11 Jan 2018, Tim Hume wrote: >>I've encountered a strange problem where my keyboard layout/language >> changes when I'm typing. I'm running on Debian buster, upgraded with >> all the latest updates. >> > I'm not certain, but I wonder if you're accidentally hitting the layout > switch key when you type '| ' quickly. Often it's mapped to shift-caps > or something like that. > > setxkbmap -print; should tell you what your default keymap is set to and > what the possible alternates are. [There may also be an XFCE specific > way of setting this.] > > > >Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com
I don't think I'm accidentally hitting the layout switch key. I can reliably reproduce this problem when I'm typing in both Libre Office and xfce4-terminal. I've found a solution for the terminal; I've switched to using st (a cut-down terminal emulator). This doesn't have the problem. Plain old xterm doesn't have the problem either as far as I can tell. I wonder if xfce4-terminal and Libre Office share a common buggy library, or something like that? Cheers, Tim Hume
