Comment 16 for bug 1988023

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote :

Questions/Comments:
What does "remotely" mean here? The bug report speaks of using the laptop
keyboard, not remote access; and a remote connection would mean just passing
a data stream - the local keymap setting has no effect on the keys sent by a
remote connection.

localectl is not how we manage keyboard settings in Ubuntu, and console-data
is a package in universe that we don't use at all. If you need to change
the keymap, this should be done with `sudo dpkg-reconfigure
keyboard-configuration`. localectl may or may not do the right thing, it's
basically untested. Regardless, capslock or shift not working correctly
should not be a question of keymap, there are no keymaps we ship by default
that don't handle these keys in the normal way. Perhaps this is a kernel or
issue or a bug with their ACPI tables?