Arrows keys disabled when enabling keyboard layouts

[ramon]

After enabling keyboard layouts in kde4 (Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)) arrows keys, ins and delete stop responding. Disabling keyboard layouts and restarting X server make them work again,

[sveri (sssssrichter)]

I have *nearly* the same problem here:
Enabling keyboard layouts stop my arrow keys working but not instantly.

I enabled the keyboard layouts some days ago and then that:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-workspace/+bug/262572
happened.

And today (two days later) all of a sudden my arrow keys + ins, delete, pg up+down stopped working.

Disabling the keyboard layouts made my arrow keys + ins, delete, pg up+down work again.
But not my multimedia keys.

System:
Intrepid Ibex on amd64 with kde 4.1 installed.

[Salva Ferrer (salva-ferrer)]

Bug 255008 is very similar to his.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/255008

I had similar symptoms with my arrow keys after today's update and the solution posted there worked for me. Just changed keyboard layout to evdev-managed.

[JonathanTurner (probata)]

I also had a similar problem. After booting up the daily-live, the USA keyboard layout was chosen, and just as you described no arrow keys worked.

They started working after I dug through the Keyboard settings and set the keyboard model to something similar to what I have (in my case a Dell PC-101)

I think it's reasonable to expect a working layout to be chosen by default since people aren't likely going to go through the "type this key, now type this key" wizard unless they have to.

[Patrick Kilgore (patrick-kilgore)]

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Thank you for having taken the time to report this bug to help make
Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.