What is wrong with my 'p' key?

i7 quad 15" Macbook Pro...just reinstalled OSX Snow Leopard.
After I reinstalled, I noticed that the 'p' key is acting funny. Pressing 'p' prints 'p\' to the screen. Hitting shift+p prints 'P|'. Capslock+p prints 'P\'. Capslock+shift+p prints 'P|'. I connected a external keyboard, and it prints p just fine. I reset pram/nvram. That didn't resolve it. What's going on? All other keys work fine.

You are going to have to ask Apple. It is very much dependent on the Apple Store you take it to for repair.
The one down the street from me managed to replace my motherboard in my MBP and get it back to me in 3 days.
Allan

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b
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rc file = /home/user/.xbindkeysrc
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"xdotool key o"
b
does not work ? It does not work like before.
I have also tried xvkbd, even with full path (/usr/bin/xdotool, /usr/bin/xvkbd), nothing works.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks.
Last edited by quasar (2015-02-07 00:15:49)

It works :-) Thank you ^^
But it was maybe a too simple case. This one does not work:
"xdotool getwindowfocus key ctrl+o"
k
After a lot of testing, xbindkeys works fine, xdotool and xvkbd work fine too. I have tried that
"xdotool getwindowfocus key --clearmodifiers ctrl+o"
k
without success.
But since
"sleep 2 && xdotool getwindowfocus key --clearmodifiers ctrl+o"
works fine in the console, I have tried:
"sleep 2 && xdotool getwindowfocus key --clearmodifiers ctrl+o"
k
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