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I log in to the root account in a terminal, press a deadkey combination, and nothing happens. Deadkeys work for the regular user account in the same terminal.
I'm not sure whether it matters, but: this is in lxterminal on Trisquel, an Ubuntu-derived distro (I re-use my xorg.conf and I've never had this problem on an Arch-derived distro), my input driver is lxinput, the keyboard layout is customized, a slightly modified version of Colemak, and the root account also ignores keystroks and improperly displays characters in the other languages I have set up in my xorg.conf.
I suspect this has something to do with Trisquel's obsession with using only free software. Some hardware won't work properly without a blob or two in the kernel.
If the keyboard works in a user account, it can't be a hardware problem.
What's happening is that your keyboard configuration in the user account is not being used for the root account. That's a new one on me — I have the same layout after using both "su" and "su -l". The solution is probably to copy the keyboard configuration file from ~/ to /root.
What's happening is that your keyboard configuration in the user account is not being used for the root account. That's a new one on me — I have the same layout after using both "su" and "su -l". The solution is probably to copy the keyboard configuration file from ~/ to /root.
My keyboard configuration file is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
The root account is using the correct layout as far as basic keystrokes; only the deadkeys have no effect.
I am using doas instead of su...that might be relevant. If I can remember my root password, I'll see if I have the same problem with su.
Last edited by starkid; 04-16-2024 at 11:50 AM.
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