gideon
(phil dee)
August 7, 2022, 5:56pm
1
when am in gnome everything works well - and i can press shift to capitalise and to get an exclamation point etc. i have installed bspwm, i3, and awesome. for each of these desktops the shift key fails to work - but gnome is fine.
when i type in -
localectl status
System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
VC Keymap: gb
X11 Layout: gb
which is correct. how can i get the shift key to work.
ilikelinux
(Ilikelinux (l.s.))
August 7, 2022, 6:16pm
2
Welcome to ask. edora @gideon
Could you please give us more info’s as (to see your hardware) :
inxi -Fzx
in terminal and post the output as </> Preformatted text here.
gideon
(phil dee)
August 7, 2022, 6:25pm
3
here it is
System:
Kernel: 5.18.16-200.fc36.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 2.37-27.fc36 Desktop: GNOME v: 42.3.1
Distro: Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME A320M-R v: Rev X.0x
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5601
date: 07/10/2020
CPU:
Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics
bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen/Zen+ note: check rev: 1 cache: L1: 384 KiB
L2: 2 MiB L3: 4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1314 high: 1448 min/max: 1400/3600 boost: enabled
cores: 1: 1256 2: 1251 3: 1304 4: 1448 bogomips: 28745
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN 5 bus-ID: 07:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics (raven LLVM 14.0.0 DRM 3.46
5.18.16-200.fc36.x86_64)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio
vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 07:00.1
Device-2: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.6
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.16-200.fc36.x86_64 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000
bus-ID: 05:00.0
IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-6:3
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 1.79 TiB (49.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 size: 1.82 TiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: External USB 3.0
size: 1.82 TiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 118.01 GiB used: 14.3 GiB (12.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 499 MiB used: 14.4 MiB (2.9%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 38.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 638 Uptime: 1h 57m Memory: 13.58 GiB used: 3.91 GiB (28.8%)
Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Compilers: gcc: 12.1.1 Packages: N/A
note: see --pkg Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.19
gideon
(phil dee)
August 7, 2022, 6:27pm
4
note - it says
Desktop: GNOME v: 42.3.1 but i am in awesome wm at the moment.
gideon
(phil dee)
August 8, 2022, 7:47am
5
Has anyone got any ideas? (I’m from the UK)
I’ve simple installed awesome, bspwm, i3 and am unable to run the ‘shift’ button from these distributions - but it all works fine in gnome. I’ve looked at the documentation and drawn a blank.
The closest I’ve got is: In Fedora, how do I select a proper Norwegian keyboard layout? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
But this seems now obsolete.
Can I use another button for shift? If so how can I do this.
scottro
(Scott Robbins)
August 8, 2022, 12:40pm
6
If your tiling window managers are using X rather than Wayland, it might be worth trying
xkbcom gb
(in case you haven’t already). I am not familiar with a UK keyboard layout, is the shift key where it is on a US layout? If not, I would try hitting the key that usually works on a US keyboard.