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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 03:47:45AM -0500, Tim Hume wrote:
> >-------- 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.
You can verify (or falsify) that with xinput (same-named package).
Sample session:
tomas@trotzki:~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
tomas@trotzki:~$ xinput test 9
key release 36
key press 65
key release 65
key press 62
key release 62
key press 50
key press 37
[...]
The gory details in the manpage :)
Cheers
- -- tomás
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