Questions tagged [keyboard]
Questions about keyboards, both touch and otherwise. However, please add the "touchscreen" tag for touchscreen keyboard questions.
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Keyboard unresponsive after sleep: Dell Inspiron 15 3000 running kubuntu 22.04 lts
lately I'm having a problem which is whenever i put the laptop to sleep and open it again the keyboard is not working and only when i restart the laptop does it work, how can i fix this?
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installed in parallel with windows ubuntu
installed in parallel with windows Ubuntu.
Ubuntu doesn't recognize the keyboard.
I use a USB keyboard.
AMD® Ryzen 5 6600h with radeon graphics × 12. I contacted representatives of the laptop ...
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How to use external keyboard as macropad in ubuntu
I am working on latex, Video Editing and Libre office oftenly. I have my own shortcuts for most of the repetitive task. Some times it will be hard for memorizing it. So i planned to use external ...
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How do I set my keyboard layout to work like the Windows mnemonic Russian keyboard?
This is the mnemonic Russian keyboard in Windows.
while this is the phonetic Russian layout in Ubuntu.
In Windows there are some Russian characters mapped in different keys and also:
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Lenovo ThinkPad L15 gen4 keyboard issue after update
I have some problems with my laptop.
I updated my Ubuntu and after that built-in keyboard doesn't work...
MB I have to reinstall the keyboard driver, but I do know how to do it, I'm not a pro in ...
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Special key not working in Ubuntu
I am new to Ubuntu (Linux in general). I use a laptop and the right-click of my mousepad is dead, so I used to use a "special key" provided on my laptop for the same usage, It used to work ...
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Adding ++ctrl+enter++ key combination in bash (to allow for nvim enter key combinations)
I'm trying to make the ++ctrl+enter+ key work in nvim to be able to create a new line above in incert mode without leaving <ESC>oi similar to vscode but the following don't work:
keymap("i&...
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Keyboard doesn't work after suspend in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Help! My Dell Latitude 3340 laptop running Ubuntu has a problem. When I wake it up from Suspend mode, the keyboard stops working, but the touchpad mouse still works. The only way to get my laptop back ...
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What is hiding Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Up/Down
I'm using Pycharm as an editor and wish to use the next change keyboard shortcut, which is Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Up/Down. However it does not register. It even seems to not register just Ctrl+Alt Up/Down.
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Several keys of the keyboard stopped working on my laptop (French)
On my laptop (Dell XPS13) Ubuntu 22.04 several keys on my French keyboard stopped to work: w x c v , ; : return caps
Everything is fine when I use an external keyboard; in addition, in the BIOS as ...
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How to set keyboard repeat delay and speed in Ubuntu Gnome 16.10?
In previous versions I could tweak the keyboard repeat delay and speed by going to Settings → Keyboard → Typing. Now in Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 (with GNOME 3.20.2) that panel seems to be missing.
How can I ...
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Extra keyboard layout shown in xkbmap compared to settings
If I type setxkbmap -query in the terminal of my Ubuntu 22.04 system I get this output:
rules: evdev
model: pc105
layout: se,ru,us
variant: ,,
options: lv3:ralt_switch,grp_led:...
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Enabling numlock
I want numlock enabled everytime when Ubuntu starts. Here I found a guide how to do it, I just can not get into "Keyboard Preferences". When I go into "Keyboard" there are just "Typing" and "Shortcuts"...
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Can't turn on keyboard backlight
my function key for turning on backlight is not working. I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and HP OMEN 15. I tried xset led commands, but that doesn't work.
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Asus ROG Wireless keyboard logging of KDE after waking keyboard from sleep (battery saving mode)
First this is not so much a question but a solution I came up, and wanted to share if anyone is facing this issue since I didn't find anything online except one guy who gave up. Also I asked ASUS for ...
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How to disable Bluetooth power saving?
I've been using a Bluetooth keyboard with Ubuntu for years now. To begin with it was quite tricky to get it to pair, but for the last several releases it's been rock solid.
After updating to 20.04 (...
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Keyboard Shortcuts and "Find Files on Desktop"
I am trying to control OBS using keyboard shortcuts. However, whatever keys I map, when I press them the "Find files on desktop" window pops up.
I looked at the Gnome extensions, and the ...
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Can't type "|" (vertical pipe)
I can't type |. I have tried to press and hold Ctrl and Shift and then press and release U and then type 007c but nothing happens.
I do not know if I make the wrong sequence of pressing and holding. ...
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Press and hold arrow keys doesn't advance cursor in Firefox
It's a few weeks that when I am in a field text in Firefox (gmail, discourse forums and others, but e.g. not here in AskUbuntu) if I keep pressed the right/left arrows, the cursor does not advance on ...
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Keyboard not working after login after update to 18.04
After upgrading from 17.10 to 18.04 my keyboard suddenly stopped working when logged in via Gnome(also tried the other two options, gnome with wayland and unity)
During login screen the keyboard is ...
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Touchpad scrolling and keyboard working Ubuntu 22
I am encountering the following challenges
the touchpad is not working (I have tested using the mouse and still the same problem) specifically when I try scrolling, it Automatically instead zooms the ...
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Fix CAps LOck delay in Ubuntu 21.04
I am one of those people who uses CAPS LOCK to capitalize text, so the issue is quite annoying on Linux distros where there is a delay. I had found a fix for this, which included changing the key<...
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How do I clear xmodmap settings?
Exactly what the title asks. How do I clear xmodmap settings?
I have an IBM model M, and somehow xkeycaps got it into its head that my End key was not any key at all. xev reports keypresses when I ...
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GRUB not responding to keyboard
I installed Ubuntu 12.4LTS on dual boot with Windows XP on my 7 year old desktop PC 2 months ago.
Everything worked perfectly in both Ubuntu and XP until last week when I removed LibreOffice from ...
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How do you swap the alt/win keys *and* map win key to meta in Gnome?
I'd like to be able to use the Windows/Super key on my keyboard as the Meta key. I'm doing this because the standard Gnome bindings are not all tweakable. You can change a lot of them but Gnome seems ...
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Howto to move window to another monitor on the left/right using keyboard shortcut?
I have always used Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Left/Right to move windows from left to right monitors.
Installed Ubuntu 18.04 last week (fresh install) and it appears that this is not working anymore despite the ...
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How to use the 'extra' characters on a German keyboard?
I was thinking of keeping my keyboard set to German all the time, because it has all the letters that both German and English need. However, looking at the 'keyboard layout', I've noticed the German ...
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Problemas con el sistema operativo ubuntu
Community, I have a question, in my operating system I have detected that the keyboard stops responding even with an external keyboard, in the same way the mouse when clicking does not work, the ...
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Set keyboard shortcut to open a new window of the current program
Obviously I could use my mouse and open a new window by right clicking but I was hoping there is a way to set a keyboard shortcut to do so. For example, right now I am typing in firefox, it would be ...
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Can't enable shortcuts in gsconnect
I want to enable a keyboard shortcut for clipboard actions like pull and push but I can't do so. It is always showing "Already being used" . Can someone please help me with this. I am using ...
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Bluetooth keyboard: Connection fails with "Can't get HIDP connection info"
I am trying to connect my bluetooth keyboard to my laptop running Ubuntu 20.04 using bluetoothctl. After successful pairing, I am not able to initiate a connection. Tailing syslog indicates the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.4 laptop touchpad is working but the keyboard is not working
First of all, my keyboard works on the bios screen and the grub screen. I installed Ubuntu, first time and the installation was successful, but I noticed that my keyboard did not work in the system, ...
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Why does my keyboard suddenly stop working?
I have been using dual-boot on a Lenovo Flex for about 3 weeks now with Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04.
Ubuntu started getting funny with unreliable connection (Wifi was connecting but not transfering ...
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Swap a broken key with a different key
My keyboard has one broken key, the equal button "=". I would like to swap this important key with a less important one, say the "Home" key. I heard that xmodmap or xkeycaps could ...
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a key falls dormant few seconds after last pressing and wakes up when pressed several times
Left arrow key stops responding when not used. Only after it's pressed several times or held down a short while it starts generating input. When I'm using it continuously there's no problem. But once ...
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Hp elitebook 840 G3 Keyboard backlight not detected
I'm having issues with an HP elitebook 840 G3. I cannot access information regarding the keyboard back light on Ubuntu 18.04
My keyboard back light works normally (with pressing Fn and F3), that's not ...
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Can't turn on external keyboard's RGB light
I recently got a RGB keyboard, which is from a Chinese company and it's name is leorqeon kmx-50 but it's RGB light won't turn on even with all the methods people mentioned here...
Do I have to give up ...
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USB slots stop working suddenly from time to time
After re-installing Lubuntu 12.04 system on my laptop an older problem re-emerged after a few days and installation of different programs: without apparent reason the external mouse and sometimes ...
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How do I disable the "Fn" keys on a laptop?
I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to disable the fn key on my laptop?
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Fn key does not move the cursor to the end or the beginning of a line in Ubuntu (Dell KB216 Keyboard)
I am using a Dell KB216 Wired Keyboard and Ubuntu. When i press the Fn key, it should move the cursor to the end or the beginning of a line, but this is not the case, instead the cursor moves as ...
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Keyboard not working on Lenovo Ideapad Slim
About half the time when entering Ubuntu or resuming from sleep, my built-in laptop keyboard doesn't register any inputs or show up in xinput even though my keyboard always works on GRUB and Windows. ...
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How to isolate shortcuts to the currently focused display in GNOME?
I have an Ubuntu 22.04 OS (kernel 6.5.0-21-generic) with GNOME 42.9 and two monitors. When I execute a system-level shortcut like Super, I get Activities displayed on both displays which is not useful ...
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Keyboard working everywhere except Ubuntu
I use a Windows 11/Ubuntu dual-boot computer, and last night before I got off I started a Windows update and went to bed. I came back this morning to see my computer had been suspended all night and ...
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Backlit keyboard on Toshiba Satellite P755-S5184 doesn't work in Ubuntu 12.04
I have the keyboard backlight turned on in bios to timer setting (1 second). When laptop boots the backlight works, but once ubuntu begins to load the backlights turn off.
There is a function key ...
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Adjusting Magnification Step Size with Keyboard Shortcuts in Ubuntu
Hello Ubuntu Community,
I'm reaching out for assistance regarding the magnification feature in Ubuntu, specifically when using the keyboard shortcuts (Super+ for zoom in, Super- for zoom out). My ...
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left and right ctrl key behaviour
In certain applications trying to use ctrl-c to copy using the left ctrl key doesn't work but using the right ctrl key works as expected.
I'm on Ubuntu 21.10 but this has been happening in previous ...
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Changing keyboard navigation panel in ubuntu
I use ubuntu with gnome DE. On clicking Alt on my keyboard, a keyboard navigation panel opens between the application window(of almost any application in full screen) and the top-bar from where I can ...
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Sticky arrow keys on Ubuntu 22.04
I have been using Ubuntu 22.04 for 2+ years on my laptop, I have to reinstall it near a month ago and since then I observed that clicking on the arrow button doesn't always lead to some response from ...
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Keyboard is not working at apps while I login as root
I am able to write in terminal and search bar at the search apps when I login as root but my keyboard does not working in Firefox, spotify, burpsuite or any other apps. I am also writing this from non-...
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Laptop keyboard not working when trying to install Ubuntu 23.10
Today I have acquired a new laptop, Maibenben X565, with preinstalled Kubuntu based on Ubuntu 22.10. I downloaded an ISO image of the regular Ubuntu 23.10 from the official site, created an ISO image ...
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