Questions tagged [keyboard]
Questions about keyboards, both touch and otherwise. However, please add the "touchscreen" tag for touchscreen keyboard questions.
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Ubuntu 24.04 - Keyboard FR not reconize in log menu
I'm so happy to ask this one.
When i'm logging with my ubuntu 24.04, my keyboard layout is not recognized.
I have to write in qwerty my password. As soon as I'm logged, my keyboard layout is ...
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Arrow key scrolling stopped working
The arrow keys suddenly will not scroll properly. Holding down on the key moves the page about one line of text. Repeatedly pressing the key moves it incrementally. This problem just showed up on two ...
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How to cancel the F4 key on Ubuntu 22.04 (Wayland)
My laptop (thinkpad x1 carbon) is having some issues. One of them is that the F4 key is being pressed without me pressing it. I want to cancel that key. I tried xmodmap -e 'keycode 70=' but that doesn'...
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Several installation issues 24.04
I have always been a Windows and Debian user. Windows for the desktop and Debian for my servers.
I have always tried to switch to Ubuntu desktop as soon as there is a major version. I have always ...
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Keyboard problems with far2l file manager under Ubuntu 24.04 in Wayland session
I use the far2l file manager (this is a port of Far Manager on Linux). Ubuntu 24.04 was recently released, and it is in the repositories since 23.10. Unfortunately, there are two annoying bugs in the ...
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The keys +, -, and left control not work
The + - and left control key have stopped to work.
I use Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, 64 bits.
Keyboard layout US.
Stiky keys are not actived.
xev gives for - key
FocusOut event, serial 37, synthetic NO, ...
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Laptop keyboard not working after suspend 22.04 Dell XPS 13 9370
Around 2024-04-12 my laptop keyboard stopped responding.
Only rebooting gets the keyboard working again.
Experimenting showed the keyboard stops working after suspend, quite reliably.
$ dmidecode
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Compose key setting not recognized in 24.04
My 24.04 beta is now offically 23.04 LTS so I think I can now ask a question on AskUbuntu. Although I have set the compose key to be Right-Alt in Settings, it is not applied. Changing the selection ...
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Bought new Asus laptop and keyboard locks on install
I bought an Asus laptop today. And I want to dual boot it with ubuntu. Keyboard freezes. So I cannot install. Model is FA507NU
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After Ubuntu Installation: Touchpad Inconsistency, System Restart Failure, and Keyboard Unresponsiveness"
When I installed Ubuntu 22.04, not only is my touchpad not working consistently, but also I'm unable to restart the system when encountering these issues. Occasionally, even the keyboard fails to ...
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Kde blocking space key in some apps
i am new to this website.
I've had a linux install of 22.04lts for the better part of a year now with a kde5 wayland desktop and i've never experienced any issue with it.
Recently i had to reset due ...
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Keyboard not responding to input after waking up from sleep
Every time I put my laptop into sleep mode, when it wakes up, the internal keyboard no longer provides input.
I have an external keyboard which will still work perfectly during this event.
Restarting ...
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Bluetooth keyboard qweruiop not working
My bluetooth keyboard is connected to my pc but the keys qweruiop is not working but all the other keys are working fine.Can someone help me with this issue.
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Touchpad and keyboard freeze for a brief moment - Kubuntu 23.10 - Asus A15 FA507NV
Some months ago I bought a new laptop. The model is Asus A15 FA507NV. When I installed Kubuntu 20.04 LTS the keyboard didn't work because the kernel didn't support it. For this reason I installed ...
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I have a Geekom keyboard and have issues typing
I am running:
Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
My new Geekom keyboard keeps sticking sticking randomly. So characters will sometimes repeat like thissssssss.
Geekom support have ...
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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 my laptop goes to sleep mode 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 when plugging in usb
I installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a MSI laptop for school, It has two USB C ports and one USB A port. Whenever I plug in anything to any of those ports, my keyboard stops working, however the laptop's ...
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Super + key above tab to switch between different instances of same app doesn't work
I only recently stumbled upon this problem in Ubuntu 23.10.
I use Super + the key above tab (tilde on Qwerty keyboards) to switch between different instances of the same app (Chrome, for instance). In ...
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Help writing leds user space driver for HP 17-by4xxx laptop keyboard backlight running Ubuntu 23.10
I need to create a new led user space driver for the keyboard backlight on my HP laptop running Ubuntu 23.10. I have found the location for the keyboard drivers.
device driver directory
/sys/devices/...
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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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Plug-in keyboard not working but plug in mouse is on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
I upgraded to 22.04 weeks ago and my plug-in keyboard and mouse both worked fine. However, last week I used the laptop elsewhere and used the built-in keyboard and mouse. Since then, I used the laptop ...
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keyboard not working right after installation or after updates
so I have a dual boot with windows 11. When I first installed ubuntu, my keyboard wasnt working and the only thing that helped was resetting my BIOS (shorting 2 pins on my motherboard), after that I ...
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How can I move the Esc key to Alt and AltGr
I'm using gVim and want to move Esc to Alt and AltGr. How can I do that?
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Control device (ASUS fan) from Gnome shortcut
After some search, the only reliable way I found to control the fan in my ASUS laptop was to issue this commands (as root):
turn on fans:
echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/hwmon/hwmon7/...
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How to wake my Ubuntu from sleep with a keyboard key sequence (not a single key press)?
My Ubuntu 22.04 by default wakes from "Sleep" mode with any key or mouse move or click (both wired and wireless devices). I would prefer it to wake if only a key sequence was entered and not ...
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Bluetooth keyboard disconnecting 6.5.0-21 kernel
My logi MX Keys Mini keyboard has been working well for a year or so and suddenly started disconnecting from Bluetooth. I can pair it but it disconnects within 5 seconds.
The message I get from ...
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Alt key not working on Dell Inspiron 7437
I have just installed Ubuntu 23.10 in my Dell Inspiron 7437 old laptop. Also Im new to Linux as well, but experienced user for Windows. I have tried to change Keyboard layout from English(US, Intern, ...
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