jcouch93 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 (edited) Upgraded from 6.4.0 to 6.5.1 and noticed that in the terminal and desktop in my VM (and also a test VM) that I couldn't type a pipe symbol (all I would get was a < symbol) while at the same time I couldn't type a > symbol using the keys for it (was just a < symbol for both keys but the comma and period worked fine). I tried changing the keyboard in the Preferences, also did a re set-up on the keyboard via GUI and CLI, but nothing worked. Using an Ubuntu forum post, I ran: xmodmap -e 'keycode 94 = backslash bar'. That got the pipe back but the < > keys still didn't work (but comma and period still worked fine). I then downgraded back to 6.4.0 and everything works with no issues. Any ideas? Edited May 6, 2018 by jcouch93 Clarified just a VM issue Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Are you using any region or language settings for anything (Docker, VM, etc.) other than "US English"? Quote Link to comment
jcouch93 Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 2 minutes ago, Frank1940 said: Are you using any region or language settings for anything (Docker, VM, etc.) other than "US English"? No. I thought that might be the issue so I reset everything back to "US English" just to make sure but still had the issue. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 Where exactly did you reset everything back to "US English"? (I can't seem to find anyplace to be able to do that... ? ) Quote Link to comment
jcouch93 Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 1 minute ago, Frank1940 said: Where exactly did you reset everything back to "US English"? (I can't seem to find anyplace to be able to do that... ? ) For the VM settings, I set VNC-Keyboard to English-United States (en-us) In the VM itself, using Linux Mint 18.3 as the Guest, I go to Menu -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layouts and make sure only "English (US)" is there and hit "Reset to Defaults". I also changed the Keyboard model to Generic 101-key PC. Quote Link to comment
myryad Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 I'm facing the same issue with 6.5.1. I can't seem to type pipe symbols in the terminal. The same issue occurs with various VM's that I've tried (Debian, Ubuntu). Quote Link to comment
jcouch93 Posted May 18, 2018 Author Share Posted May 18, 2018 I hate that you're having this issue too as at least it means I'm not crazy! Hopefully someone else can help track it down too. If you roll back to 6.4.0 get a diagnostic for the developers (I forgot to do it). 1 Quote Link to comment
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