[ILUG] [Q] weird keyboard mode - how to exit? (and what is it?)

[Brian Foster]

 several times over the past few weeks this has happened to me:
  whilst typing to an X11 terminak program (nominally konsole),
 after an (unknown) combination of keystrokes known to include
 |AltGr|, the keyboard goes into a über-weird mode.  I'm still
 not at all certain what it is doing, but it vaguely appears to
 be treating most(?) keys as prefixed with |control|; i.e., |d|
 seems to be treated as |control|+|d|.

 this mode seems to stay in effect when I switch to a non-X11
 virtual consoles (|Alt|+|control|+|F<n>|).  after switching,
 if I ^Q (|control|+|q|) and switch back to the X11 screen,
 then the X11 session is Ok.  but not any(?) of the non-X11
 screens!?  (the mode seems to be program-independent; i.e.,
 it's *not* something specific to, e.g., bash(1).)

 furthermore, the fourth (right-most) LED on my keyboard (a
 Logitech Internet Navigator (qwerty € keyboard)), with a
 hieroglyphic that looks like a downwards-arrow-on-a-line
 (and is *not* the CapsLock or NumLock LED) is lit (at least
 for the non-X11 screens), until the ^Q.  (I don't have the
 manual this keyboard, which was obtained secondhand (qwerty's
 are very hard to find in France!).)

 what is going on?
 HOW do I get out of this fscking mode?  (other than reboot.)

 (in case it matters, this is SUSE 9.1, selectively patched.)

cheers!
	-blf-
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