Proble with Alt-keys

I have a problem with my keyboard: both Alt-keys work "wrong": the left only writes the following letters: äASDF© And the right one puts the aktive screen to the left side of the display (when I click on the side-bar it appears again...)
Can someone help me please
Alois

When I press left alt once ---> äASDF© is typed.
When I hold the key --> äASDFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
I'd borrow another usb keyboard somewhere and see if it does the same thing.

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Mr.Elendig wrote:it returns ^[a as it should.
Ah ha - okay. So you're using escapes too, rather than meta8 (this is the default, so makes sense). Yeah, I got it working doing that, but had to adapt my .vimrc to get it to acknowledge the ^[ as "alt". Didn't you, or did a simple map of e.g. <A-a> suffice?
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After searching and investigating quite a lot, I am posting
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