Comment 113 for bug 520546

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Balint Reczey (rbalint) wrote : Re: Alt+KEY incorrectly behaves like Ctrl+Alt+KEY, and/or unwanted VT switch from Alt+Left/Right

Verified 1.178ubuntu2.9 on Bionic:

rbalint@yogi:~/projects/deb/unattended-upgrades$ sudo kbd_mode
The keyboard is in some unknown mode
rbalint@yogi:~$ sudo apt install console-setup console-setup-linux keyboard-configuration
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  console-setup console-setup-linux keyboard-configuration
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 67 not upgraded.
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Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 391247 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../console-setup-linux_1.178ubuntu2.9_all.deb ...
Unpacking console-setup-linux (1.178ubuntu2.9) over (1.178ubuntu2.8) ...
Preparing to unpack .../console-setup_1.178ubuntu2.9_all.deb ...
Unpacking console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.9) over (1.178ubuntu2.8) ...
Preparing to unpack .../keyboard-configuration_1.178ubuntu2.9_all.deb ...
Unpacking keyboard-configuration (1.178ubuntu2.9) over (1.178ubuntu2.8) ...
Setting up keyboard-configuration (1.178ubuntu2.9) ...
Your console font configuration will be updated the next time your system
boots. If you want to update it now, run 'setupcon' from a virtual console.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.21) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up console-setup-linux (1.178ubuntu2.9) ...
Setting up console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.9) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.7) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-18-generic
rbalint@yogi:~$ sudo kbd_mode
The keyboard is in some unknown mode