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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0008102Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2022-12-15 15:322023-01-05 07:41
Reportersho Assigned Toarnaudr  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionwon't fix 
Product Version2022.4 
Summary0008102: Changing Keyboard Layout to "German Neo2" breaks special keys in Terminal
Description

When changing the keyboard layout to de neo (German Neo2 Layout), special characters such as the arrow keys, insert, delete, home, end, … no longer work but instead print their key events.

Steps To Reproduce
  • Download Kali 2022.4 Virtualbox Image
  • Start system
  • Open Terminal
  • Type "setxkbmap de neo"
  • Hit Keys: Left Arrow, Up Arrow, Right Arrow, Down Arrow, Insert, Delete
  • See "DACB1~~" in output

Activities

sho

sho

2022-12-19 09:32

reporter   ~0017257

It appears to be a bug in QTerminal 1.2.0

If I use another terminal emulator (such as gnome-terminal or stterm), everything works as expected.
kali-bugreport

kali-bugreport

2022-12-19 16:33

reporter   ~0017258

Better report to https://github.com/lxqt/qterminal/issues as bugs in 3rdparty are not handled by the Kali devs
arnaudr

arnaudr

2023-01-05 07:40

manager   ~0017362

Maybe you should try to change the keyboard layout via XFCE settings, rather than doing "setxkbmap de neo" (don't ask me where are those settings though ;) but it must be configurable somewhere!)

Of course, with this kind of change, make sure to log out and back in, maybe even try to reboot, just to be sure.

If it's still broken, and it only affects qterminal, then maybe you can indeed report the bug upstream, as it's really not a bug in Kali.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2022-12-15 15:32 sho New Issue
2022-12-19 09:32 sho Note Added: 0017257
2022-12-19 16:33 kali-bugreport Note Added: 0017258
2023-01-05 07:40 arnaudr Note Added: 0017362
2023-01-05 07:41 arnaudr Assigned To => arnaudr
2023-01-05 07:41 arnaudr Status new => closed
2023-01-05 07:41 arnaudr Resolution open => won't fix