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
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