Fixing keyboard layout on Xubuntu (can't use AltGr)

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I'm going crazy with my laptop's keyboard. My layout is latin spanish, and works just fine. However at some time of the morning some magic auto-reconfiguration makes my layout implode and I can't use AltGr, wich means I can't use backslashes, at symbols, newflos, etc.

My keyboard layout

By the way, I'm using Xubuntu 12.14, on a laptop. I have almost the same system configurated on my desktop pc and when madness strikes my keyboard, re-plugin it solves everything. Sadly, I don't have this cheap option on my laptop.

I was trying to remap AltGr with xmodmap, but it doesn't help.

Any suggestions about how to fix this bug?

nicooga

Posted 2013-01-16T18:14:56.437

Reputation: 123

Answers

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You can change your keyboard-layout using setxkbmap, e.g.:

setxkbmap -layout es

xmodmap shouldn't be necessary when using a standard-layout without any additional configuration.

helios35

Posted 2013-01-16T18:14:56.437

Reputation: 166

I don't know if this will fix my problem forever, as it seems to be a periodical issue but will do for now. Got to have something to do with my messy collection of configuration files :|. – nicooga – 2013-01-16T18:29:15.910

2Just a little addendum, the keyboard shown on the picture is a Spanish Latin America so, try with latam instead of es – Martín Canaval – 2013-01-17T07:23:24.460

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