Ubuntu
keymapper package

  1. Bug #113444
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 113444

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Carl Nobile (cnobile1) wrote : Re: Single & double quotes, tildys, etc. need to type twice.

OK, I've done what you ask and I think I found the problem. At a certain point in the detection of the keyboard layout it asks if specific characters are present or at least accessible on your keyboard. Most of these characters are from non-English character sets. However one key can be in the English character set (at least in the way it is represented in text mode) and that is where it asks if '"' is present. In my original install I said yes then it told me my keyboard appeared to be "us:intl" (you are correct, I didn't remember properly). This time I went back and said no for the '"' choice and the keyboard was determined to be "us". This was definitely confusing especially for a first time Alternate CD user. I assume that the '"' that is asked for is not actually what I just typed. I suppose that somehow this needs to be better explained or a different character needs to be tested to derive the correct keyboard type.

OK, how do I fix this? As I mentioned above I was able to get KDE to work correctly, but am still having this issue when I go to a VT.
Thanks.