When I am in a console (not terminal emulator) (after using Ctrl+Alt+F_, AltGr+key combinations are not working.
I am using a Czech keyboard layout which (as many layouts do) maps various special characters to AltGr+key combinations (sometimes called dead keys, I believe). For example I can write |
by typing AltGr+w (AltGr is right-Alt).
This works perfectly in DE (in my case GNOME Shell), but doesn't in a Linux console. Any advice how to fix it? The Czech layout is missing many important keys (like >
) so it's kinda impossible to work in terminal. I use Fedora 25 with latest updates.
EDIT: I've just tried it on my second PC with Fedora 25 (but upgraded from F24 and still using X11 instead of Wayland) and it works correctly..
Output of dumpkeys | grep -e 'AltGr\|Alt'
:
keycode 56 = Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt
keycode 100 = AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr AltGr
keycode 119 = AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock AltGr_Lock
Output of dumpkeys | grep -ie 'AltGr' | sed -n '1,5p; 50,55p'
:
altgr alt keycode 2 = Meta_one
shift altgr alt keycode 2 = Meta_exclam
altgr control keycode 4 = Escape
altgr alt keycode 4 = Meta_three
shift altgr alt keycode 4 = Meta_three
shift altgr alt keycode 52 = Meta_greater
altgr control keycode 53 = Delete
altgr alt keycode 53 = Meta_slash
shift altgr alt keycode 53 = Meta_question
altgr control keycode 59 = F1
altgr alt keycode 59 = Console_1
Output of localectl status
:
System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_TIME=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=cs_CZ.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=cs_CZ.UTF-8
VC Keymap: cz-us-qwertz
X11 Layout: cz,us
X11 Variant: ,
dumpkeys | grep -e 'AltGr\|Alt'
anddumpkeys | grep -ie 'AltGr' | sed -n '1,5p; 50,55p'
dumpkeys
- at least on my system it requiressudo
, otherwise you get a cryptic error messageCouldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
localectl --no-convert set-keymap ...
. Seeman localectl
andlocalectl status
.