Re: [ALUG] Over-clever keyboard detection in Gentoo

-- Regards, Dan On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Dan Hatton wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Dan Hatton wrote: > >> I usually operate my Gentoo netbook with one of two USB keyboards >> plugged in - a Microsoft Comfort Curve keyboard or an Apple Pro >> Keyboard. Usually, the computer responds to either of these, and its >> built-in keyboard, as if they were PC-style keyboards, i.e. shift-2 >> gives ", shift-' gives @. I quite like it this way. Occasionally >> (usually while the Apple keyboard is plugged in, although I've seen it >> once while the Microsoft keyboard was plugged in), however, the >> computer switches to responding to both the USB keyboard and its >> built-in keyboard as if they were Apple-style keyboards, i.e. shift-2 >> is @, shift-' is ". There's nothing wrong with this in itself, but >> unfortunately it coincides with the computer becoming very to respond >> to keypresses, and frequently mistaking a single keypress for a large >> number of multiple presses of the same key. It also coincides with >> the second light from the left (of six) in xkbvleds coming on, which >> suggests that the behaviour is switchable. Any ideas how to switch >> it, please? > > I just accidentally answered my own question: left alt-shift toggles > between the two ways of responding to the keyboard. Interesting. > Especially when I want to type meta-% in emacs.