yuzuuser
June 6th, 2018, 03:33 AM
Just installed xubuntu 18.04 on a huawei matebook X with a japanese keyboard.
After the initial install everything looked great, but after powering on the next day i noticed that the control keys weren't working (do not show up in xev or showkey) ... funny, i'm sure they worked last night...
There's a lot of "control key not working" forum content to get through (mostly keyboard shortcut related), but none of it worked for me (gnome-tweak-tool included). Apologies if i somehow missed the killer thread.
After scratching my head a few hours i noticed that they started showing flickers of life ... working intermittently ... few hours more, the battey is running down so i connect the power - then they're suddely working 100%.
Have now repeated several times and as far as i can see it's like this:
from power on with battery only : ctrl keys not working
on battery, after a little use (crazy ctrl-c'ing in terminal window) : start working intermittently, but not to a useable degree
with power connected : work 100%
behaviour is exactly the same for L/R ctrl keys. No other keys have problems
Unfortunately this was a new laptop and i deleted windows so i have no evidence that it's not a h/w fault, but i don't see how a hardware fault would affect only, and both ctrl keys.
Any ideas?
:confused::confused:
After the initial install everything looked great, but after powering on the next day i noticed that the control keys weren't working (do not show up in xev or showkey) ... funny, i'm sure they worked last night...
There's a lot of "control key not working" forum content to get through (mostly keyboard shortcut related), but none of it worked for me (gnome-tweak-tool included). Apologies if i somehow missed the killer thread.
After scratching my head a few hours i noticed that they started showing flickers of life ... working intermittently ... few hours more, the battey is running down so i connect the power - then they're suddely working 100%.
Have now repeated several times and as far as i can see it's like this:
from power on with battery only : ctrl keys not working
on battery, after a little use (crazy ctrl-c'ing in terminal window) : start working intermittently, but not to a useable degree
with power connected : work 100%
behaviour is exactly the same for L/R ctrl keys. No other keys have problems
Unfortunately this was a new laptop and i deleted windows so i have no evidence that it's not a h/w fault, but i don't see how a hardware fault would affect only, and both ctrl keys.
Any ideas?
:confused::confused: