On Wednesday 18 January 2017 12:10:06 Gene Heskett wrote: Taking a clue from Xorg.0.log that said the keyboard was a pc105, I launched a recursive grep in the /etc directory. :cd /etc/;sudo grep -R pc105 *
It turns out that the "default/keyboard" file contained that string and that the next line was "option alt-intl" A pound sign was placed in front of that line, the pi rebooted, and the keyboard is back to normal. > Greetings folks; > > I went out to see if I could move a copy of the spindle tack display > code over to the Sheldon and its r-pi this morning. > > But the keyboards, I've tried 2 now, and have rebooted, have decided > the single quote and the double quote (needed frequently to carve some > xml code) are now only typeable by first pressing the right alt key, > left doesn't work, otherwise you type a ' and get a blank, no > response, so you hit it again and get a forward tick, the opposite of > the ` under the esc key. > > Has anyone else with an uptodate r-pi noticed this? The mouse and > keyboard prefs don't have a way to change the keyboards LANG, which is > en_us-UTF-8. > > For some reason LOCALE is not set. I found /etc/locale.gen, which was > correct, and it said to run locale-gen, so I did, took 5 seconds or > so, but I still do not have a LOCALE in my ssh login env. > > /etc/X11/xkb is an empty file. But its empty here too. And this > keyboard works correctly when logged in with ssh to the pi. > > Clues anybody?, my trail has run cold. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
