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Security issue with chinese macro keyboard and their drivers?
I’ve found that there’s no need for installing any configuration software nor drivers for using them for some(?) of these devices.
To use: just plug it in to a USB port of your device. (No drivers ...
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USB keyboard stops responding randomly
The cause of this behaviour was motherboard's malfunction. I do not know what's the issue and whether this is a factory defect or not. I was using Gigabyte B450 S2H (Rev. 1.x) motherboard.
Hope this ...
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How to get CapsLock-Shift-X working when it shows no scancode?
Given that no scancode is produced, my best guess is that your keyboard doesn't support this particular combination of key presses. Manufacturers skimp on costs by optimizing the keyboard matrix by ...
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How can I tell if my numlock etc. buttons are active if I don't have a light?
On LINUX, You can try getting info with xset:
xset q | grep Caps
Result:
00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: on 02: Scroll Lock: off
For more options, see https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/...
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Logitech keyboard K270, Mouse working but keyboard isn’t
You have to use the unifying receiver that came with the original box containing the keyboard and mouse for MK270. The old receiver will not work. The unifying receiver was stuck in a slot in the ...
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Disable auto-complete Linux
See the article
Repeating keystrokes when typing in a Linux virtual machine.
It has screenshots for Gnome 3 based desktops that show the following
bare procedure:
Open the Activities overview and ...
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How do I automatically remove keyboard driver?
To the driver being reinstalled immediately,
Press Windows, type cmd, press CtrlShift and allow CMD prompt to run as Administrator.
Enter sc config i8042prt start= disabled and press Enter.
Uninstall ...
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How do I automatically remove keyboard driver?
You may use Nirsoft's
DevManView:
Enable/disable/uninstall a device from command-line
You can use the following command-line options to
enable/disable/uninstall a device from command-line. You can ...
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Backtick on an Italian MacBook Pro's keyboard
For anyone arriving here because option + \ does work in terminal, but not in other programs (like Intellij or Pycharm),
I just found out that with the new release of Intellij, they added a new keymap ...
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OS X: using the keyboard to select an option in a message window / box?
In Sonoma release, turn on "Keyboard navigation" in keyboard shortcuts. And, then use tab to navigate the buttons. Press space bar to select.
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Umlauts on Linux like on Mac, US Keyboard
I just tried to setup umlauts on my thinkpad keyboard with US layout (it works hehe ßöäü€ and so on). I run Ubuntu 22.04 on it.
Use xev to determine the keycode of your Right-Alt key (for me it's 108 ...
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Umlaut (ä, ö, ü) on English (US) layout
I also tried to setup umlauts (äöü߀) on my US layout thinkpad keyboard.
For me it worked like this:
use xev to determine the keycode of the right side Alt key
Setup a ~/.Xmodmap file like so:
! ...
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Some keyboard keys do not work correctly (Alt, ctrl, alt, was jammed)
If the suggestion about deleting all the keyboard layouts that you don't use doesn't work, it could be one of two problems. Either you need to do a very thorough cleaning of your keyboard and mouse, ...
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Is different mute key action possible?
You may use the free AutoHotkey V1.
The following example script will map
Mute down and
Mute up
to toggle the mute mode:
Volume_Mute::Send, {Volume_Mute}
Volume_Mute up::Send, {Volume_Mute}
After ...
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Stop Bluetooth Keyboard from Sleeping
Creating a /etc/udev/rules.d/50-usb_power_save.rules sorted out my issue with my Microsoft keyboard and mouse.
By adding this on one line:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{...
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When using Alt+234 to type Ω (omega) on Windows 10, I actually get Û (UK keyboard)
The problem is the code page used by your program; Windows, by default utilize ANSI for all programs and advanced programs uses Unicode. ANSI do not have a character for Ω but the 437 (US) codepage ...
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Hold Alt to change keyboard layout in Windows temporarily
On Windows 11, I just now used the "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) Version 1.4" to make this happen. (In my case, holding down the right Alt-Key to be able to type the German ...
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Pressing the tilde key (~) waits for a second key stroke, how do I disable this?
I have found it difficult to maintain a keyboard layout created with MSKLC, because every time I update the layout I have to uninstall and reinstall the keyboard layout. I am using an AutoHotKey (...
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