Questions about keyboards, both touch and otherwise. However, please add the "touchscreen" tag for touchscreen keyboard questions.
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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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My keyboard is bugging out on 12.04 ubuntu
I have a saitek Eclipse 2 keyboard
You can switch lights from blue to red to purple to nonw. However, when ever i change the colour on it, it changes color yet it also does some strange command. ...
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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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Problem with remapped key when changing between languages
I've remapped a certain key (` to w) with this way:
xmodmap -e "keycode 49 = w"
I use Greek language, not only English and I change between languages with ALT+SHIFT. When I turn the keyboard ...
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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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12.04 doesn't recognize keyboard
I have a microsoft USB keyboard that I've used on many linux machines-- on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine, I can boot the machine, hit the key, and go into the bios menu just fine. The keyboard works fine, ...
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How to make my backlit keyboard work?
My laptop is Toshiba Satellite A660, my backlit keyboard working on Windows7, but how to make it work with Ubuntu 12.10 ?
Thanks!
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How to emulate the super key?
I use an extremely old retro-keyboard.... " TVS 101.PC-XT"
This keyboard has only 101 keys (AlphaNumeric, NumPad, FunctionKeys);
And I don't intent to change it for I am very comfortable with it !
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Installed Ubuntu with Wubi on Windows 7. When I'm booting up the computer, my keyboard won't respond and I can't switch to Ubuntu
After I installed Ubuntu with Wubi, I rebooted my computer and Ubuntu loaded up fine. I then restarted the computer to see if I could switch in to Windows, which I could. And then once again I tried ...
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Cannot use super+space as a shortcut in XFCE
I moved from KDE to Xfce, and I've found that I cannot use Super+Space as a keyboard shortcut (applied via the Xfce keyboard settings program).
My main concern is that I use that shortcut to open up ...
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Keyboard not working properly when remoting into Ubuntu 12.10 via tightvnc
I have an interesting problem that I can't seem to fix. I am running into the problem outlined here and there is a solution posted by user ecadman. However, the steps to fix it are:
Alt+F2
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Can't 'wake up' server using keyboard
I'm not sure if this is a setting on my end.
I leave my server 12.04 on and after a while the screen shuts off. But I cannot reactivate it or 'wake it up' using the keyboard once this happens. But ...
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application switching
I mind if there is possible to change from a window to another by binding a key shortcut to every window. I mean for example to go to my navigator i would press alt-q and to switch to skype i would ...
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Laptop keyboard not working unless external keyboard is connected
I have a problem with my keyboard after upgrade to 12.04 - after turning on the computer it doesn't work at all... I can get through the login panel thanks to the on-screen keyboard but then, already ...
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Keyboard not working/ kbd_drv.so missing
The keyboard stopped working on my Acer Aspire One running Ubuntu 12.04.
The keyoard doesn't work when the computer is booted (ie: I can't press F12 to change the boot order) amd it doesn't work when ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.1 Server VM doesn't recognize keyboard
I installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 Server on sdb2 with this iso.
I selected the install minimal virtual machine (after pressing F4) and the installation worked fine.
(The BIOS knows the keyboard and the ...
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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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How do I get my keyboard to work in Grub on this old IBM ThinkCentre PC?
Recently, I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on an old IBM ThinkCentre alongside Windows XP Professional. I have had problems with Ubuntu, so I would like to boot into Windows to delete the Ubuntu partition. ...
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Change Keyboard input
i'm Norwegian but i prefer the US/UK Keyboard
The problem comes when I have to use the ÆØÅ (Norwegian spesific) keys.
I'v made a script to change between these layouts.
Somewhere online i read about ...
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How do I install Ubuntu with some broken keys on the keyboard?
I'm attempting to install Ubuntu 12.10 onto my older laptop. I power up the computer, pressing F12 to load the boot menu. It offers me to load from the hard drive and from my USB, but my ↓ and Tab ...
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Locking keyboard, mouse and CDROM for baby
I use laptop and need to use keyboard between baby activities...
Is there any software for ubuntu that does all these things by pressing just one key (or predefined combination/password)?
I tried ...
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How are key codes mapped to the appropriate action?
After figuring out how to change the mapping of scan codes to key codes using udev, see this question, I was wondering how those key codes (or events if you will) are mapped to the appropriate action. ...
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Keyboard isn't working in GRUB after putting computer back together
I have a 2006 Macbook (Black), Intel Core 2 Duo and 2GB RAM. Recently while cleansing the inside of dust with a hint of compressed air, I had removed the hard drive, the RAM, and the screws securing ...
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Tilt of laptop causing “Unknown key pressed” syslog entries
While trying to figure out another crash on a new HP Probook 4340s, Ubuntu 12.04, I noticed my syslog was getting continuously spammed by this:
Jan 14 06:50:02 localhost kernel: [ 1070.536686] atkbd ...
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“Wireless disabled by hardware switch” after suspend and other hardware buttons ineffective - how can I solve this?
I have recently purchased a Novatech nFinity N1410 laptop and am having problems with the wireless, which
sudo lshw -C network
tells me is Centrino Wireless-N 2230 and using the iwlwifi driver.
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Laptop keyboard stops working after x2x install and use
I'm new to linux/ubuntu and I have encountered a little problem: After installing x2x (following ubuntu community documentation about x2x) my laptop keyboard no longer works. The x2x system worked ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Keyboard Shortcut without use of modifier key
Currently it seems you cannot enter keyboard shortcut combinations without the use of a modifier key. Is there any way to circumvent this, ie. a configuration file that I could manually enter these ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 laptop keyboard key 'T' working as Function F9. Not able to reset [closed]
I use Ubuntu 12.10 on my Lenovo ideapad laptop (U300e). While working, I found that my key 'T' (or 't') is working as F9 . I didn't make any changes intensionally to do this.
Can you tell me how to ...
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Problem binding a shortcut to a function / multimedia key
I want to connect a batch script to a shortcut. When I bind it under System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts it works with every key, except my brightness keys from my external Apple keyboard.
The ...
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How can I restore default keyboard shortcuts in 12.10? [duplicate]
This question has been asked already, but it doesn't seem to apply to Ubuntu 12.10. The file formats of /usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/ has changed.
I tried the script someone kindly ...
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Turn on numlock at startup [duplicate]
After some research I kinda found some answer http://askubuntu.com/a/155683/119087 . For example this answer doesn't worked for me http://askubuntu.com/a/130213/119087 I'm using USB keyboard. Is there ...
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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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Pound symbol (£) on US keyboard on 12.10
I need a shortcut to make a pound symbol with a US keyboard in 12.10.
The only way I can make one is by holding control-shift and typing u00a3. Too much typing for a single symbol!
I'm using GNOME ...
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Bluetooth Keyboard Sony Vaio VGP-BKB1 Not connected
Mine is a sony vaio Y series one , I installed ubuntu 12.10 recently and the sony vaio keyboard vgp-bkb1 doesn't connect that is pairing fails(while typing a key and a return), yet it is detected by ...
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Keys not working
I installed ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my Asus eee 900 laptop, but after the installation, The Keys F, V, L . and , does not work. I installed it with Norwegian Qwerty keyboard settings, but have also tried ...
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Grub keeps beeping (because keyboard does not work?)
I'm trying to use an old laptop of which the keyboard does not work. I think a drink has been spilled over it a long time ago. This is not the problem, I'm just using an external keyboard via USB.
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Ran sudo fuser -cuk /var/lib/dpkg/lock; sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/lock now the keyboard or the mouse does not work on login screen
Title pretty much says it all. I was refered with another problem i had to a answer which said i should do that command. Now the drivers seems to be uninstalled. I can't move the mouse or the keyboard ...
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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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Disable keyboard backlight on Sony Vaio SVE14 [duplicate]
I've read a lot about using the following file to deactivate the backlight but for me it just doesn't exist:
/sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/kbd_backlight
The sony-laptop folder exists though.
Is ...
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How to insert the Interpunct character in ubuntu?
Does anyone know how I can insert the Interpunct character (also known as midline decimal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct ) in Ubuntu. The combination mentioned in the Wikipedia article does ...
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shortcuts lost after restart
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10.
When I try setting some shortcuts and restart the System they are "deactivated" or default (but they are still working). After one more restart they do not work any more.
Can ...
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Unity launcher: launch second app from results
How do I quickly (using keyboard) launch the second result of unity's launcher.
Example:
How do I launch Advanced Settings? The fastest way I found is to do Down Down Right and that is SLOW.
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Visualize pressed keys onscreen
I want to show others what keys I currently press onscreen. Unfortunately, neither xvkbd nor florence nor onboard visualize the keys I press. What else can I use?
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Problem getting microsoft arc keyboard working with ubuntu 12.10
I'm trying to get my microsoft arc keyboard working with Ubuntu 12.10. It has never worked. (Some people have reported their keyboard to working partially, working for a while and then stopping, not ...
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Xfce keyboard issues
I really like Xfce DE but I can't to use third level keys in my keyboard, for example @ € ß ¤ etc. In Unity if I press Alt I have access to those keys. Is there any way to fix this in Xfce.
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Keyboard ignored or locked at boot-up
Updated to 12.04 a number of weeks ago and all has been fine until today, when it got stuck on the log-in page. Tried all the suggestions I could find (ctrl-alt-f1 to log in etc) but nothing worked... ...
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passing key presses to browser (chrome) to control Deezer
I'm using Deezer with the Deezer+ extension on Chrome, Ubuntu 12.04. I want to be able to skip to the next song using keyboard shortcuts. I want this to work even when I'm not in the Chrome browser, ...
