just lost my pipe

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Fri Apr 24 17:47:30 UTC 2009


Christoph Höger wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> as you might know, on german keyboards, the | symbol is created by
> pressing AltGr and the key right to the shift key. 
> In my last session on my f11 thinkpad (r61) I just lost that symbol.
> 
> AltGr - <ANYOTHERKEY> worked, so did < and > on that key. Only | was
> gone. Reboot fixed that.
> 
> Any idea what subsytem (kernel, X) to blame for that? Any idea what I
> can do to dig deeper into this?
> 
> regards
> 
> christoph
> 

reproducing it would be of help.

Once you do, pulling the X log should probably be your first move. I doubt its the kernel, but dmesg wouldn't be a bad idea either.

There's also ibus, but I'm not qualified to speak on that.

--CJD




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