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kbd package

  1. Bug #520546
  2. Comment #127

Comment 127 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 1.15.5-1ubuntu5.16.04.0 on Xenial:

ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ dpkg -l kbd | cat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-=======================-============-=========================================
ii kbd 1.15.5-1ubuntu5.16.04.0 amd64 Linux console font and keytable utilities
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ sudo kbd_mode -C /dev/tty4; echo $?
The keyboard is in Unicode (UTF-8) mode
0
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ sudo kbd_mode -a -C /dev/tty4; echo $?
0
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ sudo kbd_mode -a -C /dev/tty4; echo $?
0
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ sudo kbd_mode -C /dev/tty4
The keyboard is in xlate (8-bit) mode
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ sudo kbd_mode -u -C /dev/tty4; echo $?
0
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ sudo kbd_mode -C /dev/tty4
The keyboard is in Unicode (UTF-8) mode
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ sudo kbd_mode -u -C /dev/tty0; echo $?
The keyboard is in some unknown mode
Changing to the requested mode may make your keyboard unusable, please use -f to force the change.
0
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ sudo kbd_mode -f -u -C /dev/tty0; echo $?
0
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ sudo kbd_mode -C /dev/tty0
The keyboard is in Unicode (UTF-8) mode
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ sudo kbd_mode -s -C /dev/tty0
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ sudo kbd_mode -C /dev/tty0
The keyboard is in raw (scancode) mode
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$ sudo kbd_mode -u -C /dev/tty0; echo $?
The keyboard is in raw (scancode) mode
Changing to the requested mode may make your keyboard unusable, please use -f to force the change.
0
ubuntu@ubuntu-Standard-PC-i440FX-PIIX-1996:~$