I have a Librem 13v2 with UK keyboard layout. Apart from some power issues, for which I had to send it in for repairs, it has worked wonderfully. I am running Debian with KDE Plasma on the laptop.
Then recently I noticed that the ‘’ and ‘#’ keys give the same character, and by using showkey -s
the scancode is 0x2b. When in UK-layout I get ‘#’ and when in US layout I get ‘’. It is not an OS-related problem, since when I edit an entry in GRUB, the two keys also give the same character.
I am fairly certain that this is something that have changed recently, because writing in LaTeX and programming in Python would certainly have had me notice it early on, and there was no problem some time ago.
To my level knowledge, I think that this is a hardware issue since scancode -s
, as I understand, is very low level. Can anyone confirm this? Does anyone have the same issue?
P.S.: I have observed the posts Both INT 1 and INT 2 keys on Librem13v2 UK keyboard dead and Keyboard layout unable to recognize pipe which seem related, but not really the same problem.