System not recognize my keyboard layout

Question

I have Logitech Mx Keys keyboard, and use Portuguese Brazil language.

The keyboard layout is american and not works well.

If I run set setxkbmap -model abnt -layout us -variant intl the double quotes not works well, they go out like this ¨¨.

If I run the command like this setxkbmap -layout us the double quotes works but if I need to accent words, not works, the accent go out without the letter like this. s~ao

I dont know what to do.

@GunnarHjalmarsson it worked but if someone knows what to do to be more simple. — Diego Macario, May 14 '21 at 19:15
I was surprised to see that pressing + ' twice didn't work as expected. Let's see if somebody else chimes in. — Gunnar Hjalmarsson, May 14 '21 at 19:31
I took the GUI route and went to settings > Region & Language > Add an Input Source. There I searched for English (US, note, no ). I found four US English variants: 1) English (US), 2) English (US, alt. intl.), 3) English (US. euro on 5), 4) English (US, intl., with dead keys). Of these items 2 and 4 may be of interest to you. — user68186, May 18 '21 at 16:01
@user68186 my single or double quote are strage, they print ¨¨ — Diego Macario, May 18 '21 at 17:15
Did you have a chance of testing -variant altgr-intl and the rest? — sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio, May 22 '21 at 10:17

sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-23T16:46:10.803

Check configuration

man setxkbmap shows that

   -query  With this option setxkbmap just prints the current rules, model, layout, variant, and options, then exits.

so you can check the configuration (and it would help if you post the output) with

setxkbmap -query -v 10

Set configuration

You might need -variant intl or -variant altgr-intl. But again, as per man page

   -variant name
           Specifies which variant of the keyboard layout should be used to determine the components which make up the  keyboard
           description.  The -variant option may only be used once. Multiple variants can be specified as a comma-separated list
           and will be matched with the layouts specified with -layout.

So for instance in my case to change the variant of the third layout from intl to altgr-intl I have to use a comma separated list

$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     latam,il,us,us
variant:    ,,intl,
$ setxkbmap -variant ,,altgr-intl,

In addition, you may need to use -model pc105. I am not sure -model abnt is even a valid model (where did yo get that from? I could only find a few, not necessarily reputable sources, using it). A hint to this assertion is given by

$ find /usr/share/X11/xkb/ -type f -exec grep -nH --color abnt {} \;
/usr/share/X11/xkb/geometry/pc:831:xkb_geometry "abnt2" {
/usr/share/X11/xkb/geometry/pc:886:}; // End of "abnt2" geometry
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/sun_vndr/br:84:  xkb_symbols "abnt2" {
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/sun_vndr/br:85:  include "br(abnt2)"
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/br:2:xkb_symbols "abnt2" {
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/br:49:    include "br(abnt2)"
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/br:66:    include "br(abnt2)"

You may combine using Settings -> Region & Language -> Input Sources and choosing / adding an option (e.g., English (US, intl., with dead keys)), and then setxkbmap -query to see what may be the proper model and perhaps also rules.

Notes

Out of curiosity, I checked what character you were getting

 $ printf ¨ | recode ..dump
 UCS2   Mne   Description
00A8   ':    diaeresis

You can check available options with (also 1, 2)
```
 man xkeyboard-config
```
or to cat instead of paging
```
 man -P cat xkeyboard-config
```
Old linuxes allowed for using ~/.xinitrc for permanent configuration (e.g. 3), I am not sure it still works.
I have just asked abnt not listed in xkeyboard-config models

System not recognize my keyboard layout

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Check configuration

Set configuration

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