Questions about keyboards, both touch and otherwise. However, please add the "touchscreen" tag for touchscreen keyboard questions.
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Keyboard shortcut to hide onscreen keyboard
What's the command for hiding and unhiding the onscreen keyboard called Onboard in Ubuntu?
Currently it's possible to click on the cross button at the upper right corner of the onscreen keyboard to ...
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keyboard backlit - Ubuntu 12.10 - Sony Vaio
OK, I know there are bunch of back-lit issues already posted and answered but mine is different so please don't' ignore me. lol.
In windows 7, my keyboard back-lit is always turned on while on AC ...
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Fn + numpad not working on XPS M1530
I have a Dell XPS M1530 with Xubuntu 12.10. My Fn + Up Arrow and Down Arrow for adjusting screen brightness work perfectly fine, but using the Fn key with the function numpad does not work. These used ...
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Reassigning Touch Sensitive Buttons
I have a Lenovo z580. It has touch sensitive buttons at the top as you can see in the picture.
The mute, vol down and vol up buttons work properly in Ubuntu. The other 2 don't.
The camera is used ...
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Reset Keyboard Shortcuts Ubuntu 12.10 (compiz cube issue)
I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu, and had customized some keyboard shortcuts before installing compiz settings manager. I enabled the cube setting, and followed the directions as per here: ...
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Num pad blinks all time
I use Ubuntu 12.10 on acer notebook. Now the problem is when I connect external keyboard to notebook, numlock blinks all time, and I can't use num-pad numbers. Problem exists with both external ...
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Ubuntu Dual boot breaks keyboard in WIndows 7
I have a HP ProBook 4530s Notebook PC. Main OS is WIndows 7 pro. I tried to install Ubuntu (from Windows with dual boot) several times and the result is the same. Ubuntu works fine but there is a ...
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Microsoft Wireless Mouse and Microsoft Wireless keyboard does not work together
If I plug in my USB Microsoft wireless mouse and USB Microsoft wireless keyboards at the same time, then the mouse and keyboards both become jittery. The mouse will stop moving smoothly and the ...
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Remapping keys on Apple keyboard
I'm using the German Apple keyboard for both MacOS X and Ubuntu 12.10.
$ lsbusb
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Bus 002 Device 004: ID 05ac:0250 Apple, Inc. MP110Z/B
I've successfully remapped the exchanged < and ^ ...
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System is slow after resuming from hibernate
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit and when the system wakes up after an hibernate, the mouse is extremely slow, the keyboard doesn't seem to work and I'm forced to reboot my computer.
Does somebody ...
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No response at all from keyboard after sleep (12.10) Sony Vaio VGN-CS Series
There's no response from my keyboard after the lid is closed on my laptop. Keystrokes aren't recognized and none of the light indicators (num lock, caps lock, etc) will show up. I've tried a couple of ...
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Dell Inspiron 531 DT keyboard loses focus
The keyboard on my Dell Inspiron 531 DT keeps losing focus. It does it when in any program so is not program specific. I have checked I have up to date drivers and done a Dell diagnostic check but ...
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Can I make all the keys work on a Logitech N305 keypad
I'm using a Logitech N305 key pad with ubuntu 12.10 and it mostly works but the keys for =() and the 3 function keys seem to return multiple or unhelpful keystrokes. Is there a way to make them return ...
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how to fix console keymap of installed system from livecd?
i have by mistake removed important graphical desktop packages.
due to some bug or error i cannot switch to latin letters, so cannot login, because cannot write user name (and password), if i go to ...
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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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Neither keyboard nor mouse after boot, after recovery mode they work
I have installed Xubuntu 12.10 on a MacBook Pro 5,3. The problem is that after a normal boot the lightdm shows up but I cannot use the keyboard nor touchpad.
However if I choose recovery mode: ...
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Map function+backspace to delete
I'm used to Apple laptops, on which Function + Backspace is mapped to Delete. I'm also okay with Shift + Backspace.
Is there a way to obtain this? Note, I'm using Xmonad and have some keyboard ...
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Disabling mouse and keyboard
I have a Dell E6220 and Dell already preinstalled a script disabling the touchpad when pressing Fn+F5. Do you know a way to change this into disabling the touchpad AND the keyboard when pressing Fn+F5 ...
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Keyboard settings not taking effect
I was having the annoying problem that pressing f10 on a terminal brought up the mouse menu. So, I searched for a solution here, which led me to this,
How do I deactivate F1 and F10 keybindings?
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The language changer applet disappeared
I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and my language changer applet just disappeared for all users. Every user has more than 1 keyboard layout, but on login the applet does not appear. The configured key ...
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Why does gnome-terminal swallow some of my Alt tmux shortcuts?
I worked this out for myself, but I wanted to post it as a question because I couldn't find anything when I was searching. Lots of people talk about the "menu access key" problem, but this is actually ...
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Mouse not interacting with the windows on ubuntu
For some reason when navigating through the OS its like there's a mode that swtiches from moving the window to navigating through the things inside the window and I have no idea what is going on. I am ...
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Keyboard issues in Ubuntu 12.04
My Ubuntu wireless keyboard is being really weird and I am unable to figure out what's happening.
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and today I noticed that webpages was refreshing after I hit the Ctrl ...
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problem with wireless usb keyboard
I have a problem with wireless keyboard.
Problem is: On log, kern.log, messages and syslog is only this line.
Every second is 50 lines with such message.
Oct 1 08:14:12 wwserver kernel: [ ...
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Cannot type international characters in wikidpad
I use wikidpad on ubuntu 12.04 and sometimes cannot type Turkish characters in some places. This mostly occurs in the middle of a word. But when I put space, I can type international characters.
The ...
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Minicom or Putty not responding to keyboard inputs for supervivi | Mini2440
Hopefully people can help me with this problem. I am working with a Mini2440 ARM device and so far have been able to connect to supervivi with minicom. The problem is that the keyboard inputs are not ...
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How do I switch to an english keyboard layout on a french AZERTY keyboard?
I have a netbook running ubuntu 12.04 with a French AZERTY keyboard and would like to use a QWERTY layout. I have tried selecting multiple english keyboard layouts but I always have problems with the ...
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Switching from USB to Internal keyboard?
I plugged a USB keyboard into my Gateway netbook lt3103u while using Ubuntu 12.04. When I take out the keyboard, the laptop keyboard (internal) doesn't reset. How can I reset it without having to use ...
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Ctrl -C, Ctrl -V not working in different keyboard layout
When I am in English, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V works fine when I need to copy paste. But when I turn to Greek, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V and basically no shortcut almost works in Greek.
So each time I have to alt ...
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How do I change the keyboard layout to this specific one?
How can i change the layout to this specific one?
setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include ...
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How to connect Bluetooth Apple Keyboard on both Windows and Ubuntu?
I tried to connect my keyboard both to Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I am able to connect the keyboard to each OS, but not to both.
I found this post on Ubuntu Forums that looks interesting, but, after ...
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How to direct all keyboard shortcut to active window?
If I'm using a remote desktop software, or a virtual machine, or anything similar, how could I easily (from a system perspective, as opposed to a per software solution) make it so that all keyboard ...
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How to setup a lightweight keyboard-friendly window manager with add ons
I was looking for a lightweight windows manager with focus on doing things by keyboard. Most of the lightweight desktop environment such as XFCE or window manager such as Fluxbox, etc., doesn't allow ...
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How to run Arabic 102 keyboard instead of 101
I'm completely new to Linux and Ubuntu, which I had just installed last night and I'm still feeling my way around it.
So far, I managed to install the Arabic language pack, but the keyboard only ...
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Toshiba Satellte U505 touch panel controls block unity
My Toshiba Satellite U505 gets blocked when I use any of the touch panel controls.
The configuration button (top right) does not work, the super key stops showing Ubuntu menus, and I cannot open new ...
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Cursor seems to freeze in the first attempt of typing - Unity 3D, 12.04
It happens in the first attempt of typing, no matter is after the startup, or 5 minutes later, or then after. The cursor (or maybe it's the system) seems to freeze, no matter the application I use, ...
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Weird keyboard problem
I just installed Ubuntu on an Acer Extensa 5620 laptop. The keyboard works fine except when I want to type things that require me to use Ctrl+Alt+(any key).
I can't use Ctrl+Alt+(any key) shortcuts ...
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My screen brightness fn keys don't work, and show erratic behavior
I am using ubuntu 12.04 and my computer model is Viao VGN-CS16T. Its a chinese computer, and its hard to find support for it.
When I use the fn keys, fn+f5 and fn+f6 The computer buggs out and opens ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 desktop edition not detecting my laptop and keyboard
Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my USB flash drive and loaded it on my laptop. It was good and I was able to work. My keyboard and mouse was working fine. I liked the Ubuntu and installed on the ...
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12.04 german qwerty
Keyboard Layout "German (qwerty)" missing since 12.04 states, that German (qwerty) was removed in favor of German(us). That layout however is not shown in the configuration dialogue. I tried manually ...
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How can I add a new key to my keyboard layout
I have a German keyboard layout for my notebook, which is fine. But my Acer Travelmate 5735Z has a € key over the left arrow and a $ key over right arrow key. I would like to use them. Can you tell me ...
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Ubuntu - Keyboard not working + strange screen when changing user
Yesterday, I installed ubuntu with wubi, and it went fine, but I decided I didnt like unity, so I uninstalled ubuntu. I tried all other ubuntu variations, none really succeeded to install :( live cd's ...
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Numeric keypad arrows don't work in Java applications
When NumLock is turned off, the numpad arrow keys work fine in most applications, but in java applications, like jEdit or IntelliJ, the keys behave strangely:
Home, End, PgUp and PgDn work fine
Up ...
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How to disable meta-key?
I'm using Belgian keyboard settings on Ubuntu 13.04 (Belgisch). When I want to type a third level key such as # or @ it only works with AltGr. I want it to work with both Ctrl+Alt (left) and AltGr ...
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Esc button not working, key binding
My Esc button on my laptop doesn't work, so I was thinking if I can make a key binding, or a shortcut on my keyboard to replace Esc button.
Is there a way to set f.e. Ctrl+Q to act like Esc? I found ...
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Lubuntu doesn't repond to keyboard! + account not found (wubi)
So when I boot my lubuntu up, I get like a screen with these random stripes that you'd expect when your pc crashes. Then when it boots up, I can log in with the account user, not the account I made in ...
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Keyboard not working in Kubuntu. Mouse does
I have just installed Kubuntu... it gave me a black screen for about 5 minutes, and then it rebooted and I got in, but... I can't login because I can't use my keyboard.
My keyboard worked using ...
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Mouse and keyboard modules take too long to load after resume from sleep in Ubuntu 13.04
I have Ubuntu 13.04 installed in my Sony Vaio, and I found that, after resumingfrom sleep, keyboard and mouse will not start after about 10 seconds. If I check dmesg I always find the following:
[ ...
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Intel DQ77mk MB and Ubuntu only installation does not recognize usb keyboard
I am brand new to to using Ubuntu or Linux, and I have assembled for my dad a new PC, just to run Ubuntu - no sharing with windows or anything else.
The motherboard is Intel DQ77MK with an I5-3570K, ...
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Fn keys not working in Microsoft ergonomic keyboard behind KVM switch
I have recently acquired an Encore USB KVM switch to handle both my desktop and laptop computers. Both computers are dual boots (Ubuntu 12.04/Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10/Windows 8). I have connected to ...
