Timeline for AltGr keys don't work with Ubuntu in VirtualBox
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:37 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 13, 2011 at 4:25 | vote | accept | Alf P. Steinbach | ||
| Nov 12, 2011 at 23:48 | comment | added | Alf P. Steinbach | Well, it still works after renaming that file and rebooting. And the terminal still remembers old command history after reboot. With silly persistent dynamic states like that, I think it must be rather difficult to hunt down bugs: they can't be reliably reproduced in such an interfering environment. I think further evidence of that is how the bug about AltGr has gone yoyo: closed as resolved, re-opened, closed as resolved, re-opened, so on and on. So I think it would be a Good Idea(TM) to severely punish the person who introduced that persistence of settings & state. :-) | |
| Nov 12, 2011 at 23:34 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @AlfP.Steinbach The keycode is determined by your hardware (or hardware emulator, in a VM) and by your kernel and X server version. On PC keyboards, the right Alt key has keycode 113 on older Linux distributions and 108 on newer ones (my example with 66 is because I have AltGr on the Caps Lock key). I asked a while ago how to automatically determine whether I have an “old” or “new” system regarding keycode assignments. | |
| Nov 12, 2011 at 23:31 | comment | added | Alf P. Steinbach |
It is an interesting answer, using keycode 66. In my comment before you posted this answer, I noted that keycode 113, which I just copied and pasted from the net, works for that line. Now when I run xevas you suggest, it reports keycode 108. Yet the line I copied from the net works. So it apparently has nothing to do with the keycode. I changed it to 66, just for fun, and rebooted: it still works. So I conclude it's not something technically accurate at all, but evidently a Heisenbug in Ubuntu.
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| Nov 12, 2011 at 20:23 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |