topic title: How to activate the Alt-Gr key?
Posts: 215
macondo
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
#1
I got a new spanish kbd and the keys # and @ don't work, the alt-gr key is dead, i tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and i must be entering the wrong option. Anybody knows?
Posts: 516
oldhoghead
Site Admin
Joined: 01 Oct 2007
#2
macondo,

Good to hear from you, hope you are well,

did you go to :

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

and enter under

Section"InputDevice"
Option"XkbLayout""sp"

provided that sp is correct for a spanish kbd.

cheers,
oldhoghead
Posts: 215
macondo
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
#3
oldhoghead, thanks for anwerring. Yes, in the layout i have"es" for spanish __{{emoticon}}__ In the options section i wrote"alt-gr" and"alt:gr" but it's not working...
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#4
Try
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

Or manually edit /etc/defaults/keyboard to this:

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XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="es,us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:lwin,grp:alt_shift_toggle"
I'm presuming you have that file