[Novalug] keys messed up

Zachary Zebrowski zak.zebrowski@gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 14:54:14 EDT 2012


Just my $0.02 when this happens to me (and your mileage may vary)...

1) try disconnecting the terminal (by closing the window).
2) Try to use a visual keyboard if enabled to regain control of the system.
3) <esc> :q!
4) Do the windows(tm) solution and reboot.

Best,
Zak

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Nino R. Pereira <ninorpereira@gmail.com> wrote:
> List,
>
> on rare but too-frequent occasions I must hit some key I don't
> intend to hit, or some magical keystroke combination, that really
> messes up how the keyboard produces characters on the screen. The
> first is that what used to be lower case is now capitals, and vice
> versa, the second is that I can't get the lower symbols on the
> top keys to come out right (so, I get @ instead of 2, always, and
> worse, I don't have -: it becomes _).
>
> I have two questions, one practical, the other theoretical:
>
> 1: How do I go back to the keyboard's normal behavior? and
> 2: what the )$^#(O& is going on here? What do I do wrong.
>
> I tried googling, but all I found so far were ways to do all
> kinds of other interesting things. And, in my notes I have a
> way to 'flash' the terminal (which came from one of you);
> this didn't work either, and since I had stored the information
> in a file called 'flash-terminal' I could not type
> 'cat flash-terminal' and see if that would help.
>
> Any insight you might offer is highly welcome.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nino
>
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