Hi;
I have installed Wine HQ stable 5.0.0 amd64 on XUbuntu 18.04 LTS. For this version and in fact also all the previous ones I used, when I hit the "Delete" key ("del", not backspace), both the character right of the cursor is deleted, and a dot (".") is inserted. And the same behaviour occurs with the numeric keypad dot ('".") key. Therefore both these keys can't be used within software's ran through Wine. It is not a major issue of course, as both these functionalities can be found on other keys, yet it's quite unhandy. I found a 2008 post describing this issue, but it doesn't look any solution was given. To be noticed that, as well as within this 2008 post, I also use a French keyboard.
Many thanks for having read my message, many thanks if you know a solution, and many thanks for maintaining and offering Wine!
"Delete" (del) key and numeric keypad dot ('".") key both delete and insert dot
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Re: "Delete" (del) key and numeric keypad dot ('".") key both delete and insert dot
Did you already try a different keyboard layout?
Just to make sure, it only happens in wine, not everywhere? And it happens for example in wine notepad as well?
Just to make sure, it only happens in wine, not everywhere? And it happens for example in wine notepad as well?
Re: "Delete" (del) key and numeric keypad dot ('".") key both delete and insert dot
Hi,
I was also faced with this bug (wine 3.0 Lubuntu 18.04LTS).
In my case, the output of was close to that of the 2008 post you cited.
The problem seems to come from the oss variant in keyboard layout (layout fr). See
It is solved (for me) by removing this variant:
For a final modification, edit the file /etc/default/keyboard and delete the line (or comment out) XKBVARIANT="oss"
I hope that the solution will be useful to others while waiting for a next version of wine to be compatible with the oss variant!
I was also faced with this bug (wine 3.0 Lubuntu 18.04LTS).
In my case, the output of
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WINEDEBUG = + keyboard wine notepad.exe
The problem seems to come from the oss variant in keyboard layout (layout fr). See
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setxkbmap -query
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setxkbmap -layout fr
I hope that the solution will be useful to others while waiting for a next version of wine to be compatible with the oss variant!