Probably a question of keyboard mapping

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2025-10-15 at 07:32 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> For the past unknown many months, the keyboard character 'r', when 
> pushed, will often sabotage what I do, by killing it and sometimes 
> shifts the location of the text that I input, mid sentence.
> 
> How do I find what is happening when I push the key?

Replace the keyboard. If the problem goes away, leave the replacement
in place and move on with life, discarding the old keyboard.

If the problem doesn't go away, life just got more interesting :-)

Regards, K.

PS: If this is a laptop, replacing the keyboard is harder and more
expensive, though not impossible by any means. It's something you can
do yourself provided you can source a replacement keyboard. I've
replaced several Lenovo keyboards and a couple of Dells. You can still
attach a cheap USB keyboard though just to see if the problem is
keyboard-related.


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