Keyboard detects keys as wrong keys

[burnt merlin]

linux mint think that ctrlL, win, altL, altR, ctrlR, shiftR are shift L and i know its linux mint as on windows the keys worked as intended
my keyboard is a redragon varja

things tried:
reinstalling linux mint

any help would be appreciated

[obsidian depot]

did u try setting the keyboard layout to what fits u?

[burnt merlin]

yes i have tried lots of layouts

[obsidian depot]

none of them work?

[burnt merlin]

nope

[obsidian depot]

huh give me a moment let me try googling for u

[muted cave]

Is there any option in keyboard settings to reassign keys maybe?

[burnt merlin]

theres shortcuts but those also think the keys are shift l

[muted cave]

So this problem ocurred directly after installation?

I mean, you didn't change anything?

[burnt merlin]

yes after install

[sinful belfry]

Change the keyboard layout

Or remap

[sinful belfry]

yes there is

Are you on X or Wayland

[burnt merlin]

idk

[muted cave]

Then X probably

[sinful belfry]

Run a fetch, they normally tell you

[burnt merlin]

is that neofetch?

[sinful belfry]

That works, so does GNOME settings

[burnt merlin]

what am i looking for in neofetch

[burnt merlin]

X

[sinful belfry]

Ok then

You need to use XModMap

I'll look up a guide and link it

[burnt merlin]

thanks

[river marsh]

can you try a different keyboard?

or did you try a different linux distro while being on a live?

[burnt merlin]

i can maybe try a different keyboard

[river marsh]

try if you got a spare around

[burnt merlin]

i didnt try another distro

[river marsh]

maybe your keyboard is malfunctioning

[burnt merlin]

alright

[river marsh]

or another solution to find out if its the keyboard is to try it in a different computer

if you got one on hand at least

[burnt merlin]

ive got a bluetooth keyboard will that work?

[river marsh]

if you have a bluetooth adapter to your computer, it should

but if you don't, then it's common sense

[burnt merlin]

the bluetooth keyboard works right

[river marsh]

then try using it while you test out the redragon one on a different computer

[burnt merlin]

ok

[burnt merlin]

it works on a diffrent computer

[river marsh]

maybe your usb ports are malfunctioning on Mint?

i've had some issues with Mint in the past, such as file corruptions by moving the file safely from a drive to another

and changing my clock on windows with 2 hours behind

[burnt merlin]

then what do i do?

[river marsh]

maybe try a different distro

if you like Cinnamon, try downloading separately the themes it uses

so you get the same design as the Mint one

[burnt merlin]

what distro do you recomend?

[river marsh]

my personal choice is Ubuntu because of Ubuntu Unity, but if you want to keep apt as your package manager, try debian

though, there's better DEs out there besides Cinnamon

and way customizable

[burnt merlin]

I tried popos and when I was testing it on the live install the keyboard still was weird

[river marsh]

maybe your computer is malfunctioning

[burnt merlin]

But it worked when I had windows installed

[river marsh]

then i have no idea...
it could be a kernel issue too

[sinful belfry]

@burnt merlin

https://linuxconfig.org/reprogram-keyboard-keys-with-xmodmap

May take some time by eventually it would work

[burnt merlin]

Thank you

[burnt merlin]

The keycode is set right already but it still acts werid

[sinful belfry]

Try to remap it so that it isn’t weird

I don’t know why it does that, probably just GNOME being GNOME

[burnt merlin]

It doesn't work

[sinful belfry]

Sorry, I only really have experience with the wayland version of GNOME

I don’t really know how to help you here

[burnt merlin]

Can I switch to Wayland?

[sinful belfry]

Probably would cost more of your time than just buying a new keyboard

Or you could wait a few months for the Mint team to add offical support