• Registered: 2010-07-26
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Topic: shift + certain keys give wrong keys

I have tried multiple keyboard layouts and none work. I do not have the problem in plain ubuntu or windows 7. But, in crunchbang 9.04 and in Statler ( currently in statler) when I press shift and the key to get a tilde, instead I get the following character : ¬   When I press shift +2 for @  symbol, I instead get double quotes. In order for me to get the @ sign I am actually hitting shift + double quote key. So far its only these three keys I can find causing problems.

This is a 7811u laptop ( gateway )

Any other ideas or where to look? so far this is the only problem I have encountered in crunchbang, and while I can live with it, it is kind of annoying.

edit: crap I can't figure out where my pipe is... now that I can't do without.

Last edited by mangloid (2010-08-01 03:37:41)

  • gareim
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Re: shift + certain keys give wrong keys

mangloid wrote:

I have tried multiple keyboard layouts and none work. I do not have the problem in plain ubuntu or windows 7. But, in crunchbang 9.04 and in Statler ( currently in statler) when I press shift and the key to get a tilde, instead I get the following character : ¬   When I press shift +2 for @  symbol, I instead get double quotes. In order for me to get the @ sign I am actually hitting shift + double quote key. So far its only these three keys I can find causing problems.

This is a 7811u laptop ( gateway )

Any other ideas or where to look? so far this is the only problem I have encountered in crunchbang, and while I can live with it, it is kind of annoying.

edit: crap I can't figure out where my pipe is... now that I can't do without.

CB, both 9.04 and Statler, is a UK based distro. The keyboard layouts there are different from the layouts here. Have you checked that you are using a US layout? It should tell you in the systray. It'll be a little icon saying either GB or US or something.

  • Registered: 2010-07-26
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Re: shift + certain keys give wrong keys

I just fixed it. My locale was set correctly to en_US, but I wasn't paying attention to the UK part.  after doing a dpkg-reconfigure for the keymapping and choosing other then USA all is good. A reboot was required as well.


Guess I didn't try all of them.

Interesting though - I checked another maching that has crunchbang installed which is a desktop. The keymapping is also still set to UK, but all the keys are mapped properly.


Thank you for the information.. something I'll definitely remember in the future.

Last edited by mangloid (2010-08-01 04:59:47)

  • gareim
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Re: shift + certain keys give wrong keys

mangloid wrote:

I just fixed it. My locale was set correctly to en_US, but I wasn't paying attention to the UK part.  after doing a dpkg-reconfigure for the keymapping and choosing other then USA all is good. A reboot was required as well.


Guess I didn't try all of them.

Interesting though - I checked another maching that has crunchbang installed which is a desktop. The keymapping is also still set to UK, but all the keys are mapped properly.


Thank you for the information.. something I'll definitely remember in the future.

No problem! I had the same experience when I installed Stater. big_smile