On Saturday 16 January 2016 13.44:38 deloptes wrote: > Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > What I don't know is what is causing the problem. The rest of the > > keyboard layout continues to work, only Alt Gr is gone. So far only > > loging out and in cures the problem. > > This is strange as I never had a problem with the keyboard. I have > DE,US,BG,RU at home and DE,CH,US,BG in the office. > > I use jessie with TDE 14.0.2 > > What debian version do you have and what TDE? Same as you do. > Perhaps you should check the settings - example disable external xkb or > alike. I've got "Enable keyboard layouts" checked, with Swiss and US keyboards selected. I've noted I had left the default "104-key", I've changed to 105 - could that make a change? AFAIK I have no other xkb option set. > German - nodeadkeys ... for CH I don't know which variant is setup ATM. I use the deadkeys, so my variant is simply fr > If its not a setting, it could software defect for the keyboard model (did > you try with another one) or even a hardware defect. I can rule this out, I've used several keyboards - mostly Lenovo keyboards , the one I'm typing on is brand new Unicomp. There is on thing however: there is a USB switch between the keyboard and the computer. I'd have to test if this happens on the other computers connected, but I seldom have to use these keys on them because they have special uses (video, backup). > regards Thanks for helping :) Thierry