I’m using the Portuguese(Brazil) and my Esc key doesn’t register, I tried different keyboard layouts but didn’t work either. I’m using the Portuguese(Brazil) keyboard layout. On a Samsungbook np550xda.

Are we talking about the built in keyboard? Does the keyboard have a “cedilha” Çon the keyboard?

It does yeah. Yeah it’s the laptop keyboard.

When you changed to the Portuguese_BR Locale and it not works, it might has a hardware issue. If your laptop is not brand new, open it and clean first the flat ribbon cable. This connectors are quite tricky sometimes while not making correct contact. https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/seemingl…

[Screenshot from 2023-02-03 00-23-37] This is the keyboard Esc key works fine on Bios. showkey -a shows nothing.

[image] jlflkanmm jkldfankkje: showkey -a shows nothing. Pressing FN while pressing ESC gives also no output? I can not recognize the second symbol on the ESC key. Is it a headphone? Are you using Gnome desktop? If yes please install gnome-tweaks Under “Keyboard & Mouse” > “Overview Shortc…

[image] ilikelinux: Pressing FN while pressing ESC gives also no output? Holding FN shoes no output either Nothing about Esc on Tweaks It’s a headset with a microphone under Esc System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 VC Keymap: br-nativo X11 Layout: br X11 Variant: nativo anot…

Try just br should be abnt2 by default. If i switch to nativo my ESC is dead too. Select Portuguese (Brasil) just.

[9d95d5bf47803e38c8fd680db544038eb7ff8ae9.png] That’s what I have already. If I select nativo it completely breaks my keyboard, all the keys get mixed up.

There is something totally wrong … Try to change in terminal with localectl Try localectl set-keymap br and check with localectl status

localectl System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 VC Keymap: br X11 Layout: br X11 Variant: nativo Esc key is still dead.

Esc key doesn't work

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lohroc (jlflkanmm jkldfankkje) February 4, 2023, 12:30am 15

Where else can I go to get help? It’s kinda difficult to play games without a esc key.

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