Probably a question of keyboard mapping

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Bret Busby wrote:

>How do I find what is happening when I push the key?

I agree with Karl that replacing the keyboard with another is the
quickest and easiest way to rule out whether or not it's the culprit.
That said, it would still be interesting to see what's happening.

If you run this command in a terminal window, it opens the xev
interface window and while it's open, the keycode of every keypress
is displayed twice (once as the key is pressed down and again when the
key is released) in the terminal window until the little xev window
is closed:

xev | grep -Po '(?<=keycode\s)[^\s]*'

You could launch it and press the r key repeatedly until it
misbehaves and then compare the output of the behaving and
misbehaving key-presses. It would also be interesting to keep going
until it misbehaves several times to see if it always misbehaves in
the same way or presents as a bouquet of misbehaviors delivered at
random.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.