[Solved] AltGr key not operative

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[Solved] AltGr key not operative

Post#1 by osjbe » 03 Nov 2018, 09:26

Dear all,
I would like using french keyboard :
setxkbmap -layout fr
but AltGr key does not allow to get special characters like | @ or others.

Thanks for your help,
Regards,
osjbe
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AltGr key not operative

Post#2 by Ed_P » 03 Nov 2018, 15:02

Hello osjbe.

We need more information to address your problem. What version of Porteus are you using? 4.0? 32bit or 64bit? And which DE: Cinnamon, KDE, LXDE, LXQT, MATE, OPENBOX, XFCE?
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AltGr key not operative

Post#3 by osjbe » 05 Nov 2018, 22:19

Hello Ed,
Thank you for your post, sorry for my delayed reply.
Porteus is 4.0 32bits, desktop manager is openbox. Computer is Asus EEEPC X101CH.
Regards
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AltGr key not operative

Post#4 by jssouza » 06 Nov 2018, 13:12

Hi osjbe,

Is it possible that you have a sub variant of the French keyboard?
Could you tell us which key along with AltGr should map to "@" and which to "|"?

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AltGr key not operative

Post#5 by osjbe » 06 Nov 2018, 20:36

Hi Jssouza,
AlrGr+2 should give ~
AlrGr+2 should give ~
AlrGr+2 should give ~
AlrGr+2 should give ~

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Post#6 by osjbe » 06 Nov 2018, 20:46

Sorry Jssouza....
AltGr+2 should give ~ (I indicate the position of 2 in us keyboard in French keyboard it is é )
AltGr 3 --> #
AltGr 4 --> {
AltGr 5 --> [
AltGr 6 --> |
AltGr 7 --> `
AltGr 8 --> \
AltGr 9 --> ^
AltGr 0 --> @
AltGr - (- in us keyboard, in French keyboard it is ' ) ' ) --> ]
AltGr = --> }

Thx, regards

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AltGr key not operative

Post#7 by donald » 07 Nov 2018, 00:56

Hi
I had the same problem with a german keyboard layout.

The Fix:
open /home/guest/.config/gxkb/gxkb.cfg
delete all layouts except the one you need (de in my case)
and add lv3:ralt_switch_multikey after terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
so it does look like this:

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guest@porteus:~$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     de
variant:    ,,
options:    grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,lv3:ralt_switch_multikey
guest@porteus:~$ 
log out/in

this fixed the AltGr problem for me..

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[Solved]AltGr key not operative

Post#8 by osjbe » 07 Nov 2018, 06:50

Thank you very much Donald, it worked perfectly, have a good day.

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