ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 78, Issue 112
Björn Blöndal
blondalbjorn07 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 22:28:39 UTC 2011
can't find @ on keyboard
I have Icelandic keyboard.... I have tried "Ctrl" "Alt" "Shift" but nothing
works. All is working fine except getting the @ to work. I do not understand
"AltGr" what is Gr?
Bjorn
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> 1. Re: can't find @ on kaybord (David Fletcher)
> 2. Re: 10.04 troubleshoot system freeze (Ric Moore)
> 3. Re: Ubuntu login screen (MR ZenWiz)
> 4. Re: Ubuntu login screen (Ioannis Vranos)
> 5. Re: Ubuntu login screen (Kyle Dickey)
> 6. Re: can't find @ on kaybord (Billie Walsh)
> 7. Re: can't find @ on kaybord (daniel mcfarland)
> 8. Oracle Virtulbox key issues (stan)
> 9. Re: can't find @ on kaybord (Doug)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:28:53 +0000
> From: David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net>
> To: mrzenwiz at gmail.com, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for
> general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: can't find @ on kaybord
> Message-ID: <1297970933.2024.23.camel at boss>
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> On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 10:30 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > 2011/2/17 Bj?rn Bl?ndal <blondalbjorn07 at gmail.com>:
> > > I can't find @ - Ctrl-Q does not work?? What can I do?
> > >
> > What keyboard are you using and with which gdm?
> >
> > @ is almost always <shift>2 (capital 2, on the upper row of keys,
> > *not* the number pad).
> >
>
> That was an interesting fiddle for a few minutes. On my UK keyboard,
> AltGr-Q gives me @ and AltGr-Shift-Q (in that order) gives me ?. If I
> press Shift-AltGr-Q it gives me that irritating little sound that says I
> did something wrong.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:32:44 -0500
> From: Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: 10.04 troubleshoot system freeze
> Message-ID: <1297971164.5725.3.camel at iam.wayward4now.net>
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> On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 01:02 -0500, Doug wrote:
>
> > It's too bad--this looks like a very useful program, if it really can be
> > obtained.
> > I'm big on diagnostic routines, but I guess I'll have to pass on this
> one.
>
> Huh, I just did this:
> wayward4now at iam:~$ wget -c
>
> http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/downloads/stresslinux_32bit_11.3.i686-0.6.105.iso.bz2
> --2011-02-17 14:28:35--
>
> http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/downloads/stresslinux_32bit_11.3.i686-0.6.105.iso.bz2
> Resolving www.stresslinux.org... 83.141.20.131, 2a01:198:3d0::131:51
> Connecting to www.stresslinux.org|83.141.20.131|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 220923819 (211M) [application/x-bzip]
> Saving to: `stresslinux_32bit_11.3.i686-0.6.105.iso.bz2'
>
> 0% [ ] 968,861 118K/s eta
> 35m 56s ^C
> wayward4now at iam:~$
>
>
> And ctrl-c'd it as it would have eaten up my Satellite daily usage, but
> had I left it running, it sure looks like it would have been successful.
> Maybe if you cleared your cache in the browser it would dnload it anew
> instead of falling back on a cache'd lousy copy. But, wget -c (continue
> from an interrupted transfer) has never failed me. Ric
>
> --
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> "There are two Great Sins in the world...
> ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
> Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:37:18 -0800
> From: MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu login screen
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> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Kyle Dickey <kedickey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Try the instructions on this site:
> >
> > http://www.ubuntumini.com/2009/09/hack-karmics-gdm-login-screen.html
> >
> > I've successfully done this personally to change the GTK theme of my
> > login screen. Is that what you mean?
> >
>
> Does this work in Maverick? (I can't log out and in easily, so I'd
> like to know before I cripple myself for even those few minutes.)
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:37:31 +0200
> From: Ioannis Vranos <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu login screen
> Message-ID: <1297971451.2892.0.camel at Acer-Aspire-8920G>
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> On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 21:11 +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 12:01 -0500, Reinier Millo Sanchez wrote:
> > > I'm using ubuntu 10.10. I vae found several themes for the login
> screen, but I don't know how can change the default theme. I have find in
> internet but, only can change the background, but not the whole screen.
> Somebody know how do it??? Regards
> >
> >
> > I searched a bit, and found the gnome-art package in the repositories.
> >
> > I am checking it currently, so far it looks promising. It downloads and
> > shows desktop backgrounds, desktop themes, login screen themes, etc.,
> > from http://art.gnome.org in a nice application, that allows you to
> > apply those you like.
>
>
> Unfortunately it is broken. Do not use it. :-(
>
>
>
>
>
> --
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:42:45 -0600
> From: Kyle Dickey <kedickey at gmail.com>
> To: mrzenwiz at gmail.com, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for
> general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu login screen
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> I've done it as recently as Lucid. I'd test it on my machine now but I
> no longer use GDM. Hope that helps.
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:37 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Kyle Dickey <kedickey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Try the instructions on this site:
> >>
> >> http://www.ubuntumini.com/2009/09/hack-karmics-gdm-login-screen.html
> >>
> >> I've successfully done this personally to change the GTK theme of my
> >> login screen. Is that what you mean?
> >>
> >
> > Does this work in Maverick? ?(I can't log out and in easily, so I'd
> > like to know before I cripple myself for even those few minutes.)
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:24:00 -0600
> From: Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: can't find @ on kaybord
> Message-ID: <4D5D91F0.7080800 at swbell.net>
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> On 02/17/2011 01:28 PM, David Fletcher wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 10:30 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> >> 2011/2/17 Bj?rn Bl?ndal<blondalbjorn07 at gmail.com>:
> >>> I can't find @ - Ctrl-Q does not work?? What can I do?
> >>>
> >> What keyboard are you using and with which gdm?
> >>
> >> @ is almost always<shift>2 (capital 2, on the upper row of keys,
> >> *not* the number pad).
> >>
> > That was an interesting fiddle for a few minutes. On my UK keyboard,
> > AltGr-Q gives me @ and AltGr-Shift-Q (in that order) gives me ?. If I
> > press Shift-AltGr-Q it gives me that irritating little sound that says I
> > did something wrong.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
>
> What is "Gr"?
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:30:37 -0800
> From: daniel mcfarland <daniel.mcfarland at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: can't find @ on kaybord
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> 2011/2/17 Bj?rn Bl?ndal <blondalbjorn07 at gmail.com>
>
> > I can't find @ - Ctrl-Q does not work?? What can I do?
> > Bjorn
> >
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> So - in the event that CNTRL-Q doesn't work, try ALT-F4, or a combination
> of cntrl-alt-delete repeatedly.
>
> On a mac you'd probably want to push the "COMMAND"-Q combination for the
> most frequently used cases in which
> alt-F4 doesn't work.
>
> If none of the above works try power cycling for four times (with a
> minimum power off for 45 seconds per iteration),
> and then push CNTRL-ALT F-G-H and the "plus" button. You will need to
> power cycle every time that you need to
> type the "@" button.
>
> Let me know how it goes!
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> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:40:34 -0500
> From: stan <stanb at panix.com>
> To: Ubuntu Linux List <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Oracle Virtulbox key issues
> Message-ID: <20110217214034.GA821 at teddy.fas.com>
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> Quite some time agao, I started having issues downloading teh Debian/Ubuntu
> packages for Oracle's Virtualbox on a 64 bit 10.04 machine. I have sort of
> assume that this was some sort of trasient issue on Oracle's end, and just
> commented out the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list. Now I need to make this
> work, and I am still having issues. Here is what I have in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lucid contrib
>
> apt-key list tells me:
>
> uid Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key)
> <info at virtualbox.org>
> sub 2048g/281DDC4B 2010-05-18
>
> But apt-get update faisl as follows:
>
> W: GPG error: http://download.virtualbox.org lucid Release: The following
> signatures were invalid: BADSIG 54422A4B98AB5139 Oracle Corporation
> (VirtualBox archive signing key) <info at virtualbox.org>
>
> Gogling this shows lot's of people having this same problem, but i cannot
> seem to fidn a clear solution.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me as to what the situation here is?
>
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:50:15 -0500
> From: Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: can't find @ on kaybord
> Message-ID: <4D5D9817.20507 at optonline.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"
>
> On 02/17/2011 04:30 PM, daniel mcfarland wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 2011/2/17 Bj?rn Bl?ndal <blondalbjorn07 at gmail.com
> > <mailto:blondalbjorn07 at gmail.com>>
> >
> > I can't find @ - Ctrl-Q does not work?? What can I do?
> > Bjorn
> >
> > /snip/
> >
> > If none of the above works try power cycling for four times (with a
> > minimum power off for 45 seconds per iteration),
> > and then push CNTRL-ALT F-G-H and the "plus" button. You will need
> > to power cycle every time that you need to
> > type the "@" button.
> >
> > Let me know how it goes!
> If I had to do that, I'd sure as heck find another distro, or use
> Windows! --doug
>
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