Getting mysteriously logged out when using key combinations

[regus]

Hi everyone!

I have a serious problem with my system. When I use key combinations, e.g. alt+← to go backward in a document or when surfing, or ctrl+a to mark a text, I sometimes get mysteriously logged out and my session is erased. All my active documents, programmes I'm running etc. are gone as if I rebooted my computer.

Does anyone have an idea of what is wrong and what I can do to try to fix it? All advice is greatly appreciated! I'm running Debian 10 non-free on a ThinkPad L390.

 

[Tolkem]

Hi everyone!

I have a serious problem with my system. When I use key combinations, e.g. alt+← to go backward in a document or when surfing, or ctrl+a to mark a text, I sometimes get mysteriously logged out and my session is erased. All my active documents, programmes I'm running etc. are gone as if I rebooted my computer.

Does anyone have an idea of what is wrong and what I can do to try to fix it? All advice is greatly appreciated! I'm running Debian 10 non-free on a ThinkPad L390.

Debian on Gnome? XFCE? KDE? What DE is it runnng on?

 

[regus]

Debian on Gnome? XFCE? KDE? What DE is it runnng on?

Debian on GNOME. I never had this problem when I ran Ubuntu (18.04) for over a year.

 

[Tolkem]

Debian on GNOME. I never had this problem when I ran Ubuntu (18.04) for over a year.

It's been ages since I last used Gnome. Did you check your keyboard layout is set correctly? Sounds like it is misconfigured or something. Try reading here and see if you find something that helps. https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/keyboard-shortcuts-set.html.en

 

[regus]

@Tolkem: Actually that has been a problem. When I installed Debian the Swedish default keyboard didn't show one of the keys properly, but the Macintosh keyboard was closer to correct so I chose that instead. I think that was a mistake.

I've tried to change the keyboard with "sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" and tried the ThinkPad keyboards from the list and Swedish default but it didn't change anything. I've tried to figure out and search for which keyboard I should choose with no satisfactory result. It's a jungle.

 

[Tolkem]

@Tolkem: Actually that has been a problem. When I installed Debian the Swedish default keyboard didn't show one of the keys properly, but the Macintosh keyboard was closer to correct so I chose that instead. I think that was a mistake.

I've tried to change the keyboard with "sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" and tried the ThinkPad keyboards from the list and Swedish default but it didn't change anything. I've tried to figure out and search for which keyboard I should choose with no satisfactory result. It's a jungle.

Then this might be the root cause of the problem. I suggest you to go ask here https://www.linux.org/forums/debian-and-derivatives.154/ and/or here http://forums.debian.net/ since those ones are debian specific forums, you might get luckier than in a general linux like this one.

Hope this helps!