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Missing Left Bracket - pauloz - 01-26-2016

Hello.

I'm noticing when I want to type a left bracket i.e. SHIFT 9 on my keyboard, it does not display, no matter what program I'm using. I use this quite often so it's rather annoying. It was working previously when I had Linux Mint Cinnamon installed on my Asus Zenbook UX-21 for a few weeks. I had other issues with Cinnamon so decided to ditch and install LL. Everything is fine except for this little problem. Given it was working previously using Cinnamon, I don't think it's a hardware problem. Can anybody help please?

Thanks
Paul

Re: Missing Left Bracket - Lynne - 01-26-2016

(01-26-2016, 03:08 AM)pauloz link Wrote: Hello.

I'm noticing when I want to type a left bracket i.e. SHIFT 9 on my keyboard, it does not display, no matter what program I'm using. I use this quite often so it's rather annoying. It was working previously when I had Linux Mint Cinnamon installed on my Asus Zenbook UX-21 for a few weeks. I had other issues with Cinnamon so decided to ditch and install LL. Everything is fine except for this little problem. Given it was working previously using Cinnamon, I don't think it's a hardware problem. Can anybody help please?

Thanks
Paul

While I can't help with this little problem of yours Paul, I just wanted to say that I'm finding a few little things not quite working as they once did either. I just work around them and not bother to use them if I can get away with it.

I do hope you can find a solution for your problem without too much time passing.

...  Smile

Re: Missing Left Bracket - Valtam - 01-26-2016

Did you check the Start page in the Manual? It addresses keyboard.

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Re: Missing Left Bracket - pauloz - 01-26-2016

There's nothing there that addresses my issue. Every other letter, number and symbol display OK. I had this same problem when I had LL installed on this machine previously. I thought I'd try Linux Mint Cinnamon to see if it would solve this problem - it did but it was pretty buggy with other issues - e.g blank screen when starting up which started peeving me off. I reinstalled LL - everything seamless but for this. I can't believe how often I use it although I do a lot of writing - will have to work around it, maybe paste from Special Characters in LibreOffice.

Re: Missing Left Bracket - firenice03 - 01-26-2016

Assuming what you're missing is the "(" open parenthesis (Shift+9)...
Check your keyboard that its set as a layout that matches... Try standards??

Some items from the help manual:

Quote:Keyboard Function

On some laptops you may have to enable Numlock as it is disabled by default. You could also try FN + Numlock to use your keys, or FN + one of the F keys across the top of your keyboard. This varies from computer to computer.
Quote:Keyboard Related

You can find information for adding or modifying hotkeys (or shortcuts) on the XFCE wiki.
http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/keyboard
You can adjust layout from the link above..

Re: Missing Left Bracket - avj - 01-26-2016

I would suggest you test the keyboard in a LL live environment either live usb or dvd.  If it works properly there, you may have some type of corrupted install.

Just wondering are you by chance using a separate home partition?  If so you may have some type of configuration mismatch.  That can be caused by using the same home folder across distros.

Re: Missing Left Bracket - pauloz - 01-27-2016

Thanks for the replies. This was a clean install of LL. I booted from a live USB and had the same problem. I'll just have to work around this - it's not a major issue but I thought I'd check the forum out first to see if anybody had an answer.

Re: Missing Left Bracket - Wirezfree - 01-27-2016

A Google for that Asus, shows quite a lot results for random keys not working because of loose keyboard cable.
Maybe worth checking it out, just to rule it out..??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E-2RCp8CZ0

Re: Missing Left Bracket - pauloz - 01-27-2016

Thanks Wirezfree - I've tried this before from that actual video. I'll give it a go again. It's just frustrating that the Shift 9 key was working fine when I had Mint installed - the only issue is with LL but I will not budge from LL just for that - it's still the best distro IMHO.

Paul

Re: Missing Left Bracket - Wirezfree - 01-27-2016

@pauloz, I guess it's worth a shot... Just to be sure.
I noted on one poster saying, "I have to this every couple of weeks"..!!!