Hi Beem
That was a really useful post. I took away the keyboard variant intl with dead keys and replaced the thinkpad model with PC102 and the quote, doublequote and tilde work fine first press - Thankyou

In answer to the question how is the keyboard defined in xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "thinkpad" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" #xkeym...

Hi thankyou for your reply. By using geany and hd it ends up that the quote mapped to ascii hex B4 and double quote A8. Do you know how I can reset them back to the proper values

Can anyone help me finding the right keyboard map for an IBM thinkpad A22m with the UK keyboard. At the moment the single quotes, double quotes and tilda does not show on the screen on the first keypress only on the second, however I dont believe it is mapping to ascii dec 39,34,126 respectively as ...