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I'm running Xubuntu 14.04 with an Apple USB QWERTY keyboard. Up until last week, RAlt was working fine as my compose key and Ctr-Shift-U was working for Unicode entry. However, it has stopped working.

Here is the keyboard layout in /etc/default/keyboard:

XKBMODEL="apple"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:lalt_switch,compose:ralt"

I have "Use system defaults" selected in Settings-->Keyboard-->Layout.

I tried re-running sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration but it didn't help.

Is there anything else I can try? I'm not having a lot of fun typing French and German without a compose key at the moment!

Thanks,

Tom

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  • Just a guess... plain US keyboard has no Alt-Gr definitions in layout, see http://askubuntu.com/a/432985/16395 (although it can be a different thing). Ctrl-Shift-U stopped working for me some time ago, it seems that no one is interested... (small list of international keyboard bugs is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1218322) – Rmano Nov 19 '14 at 14:29
  • Thanks @Rmano. It's a real drag trying to type accents on a QWERTY keyboard in Ubuntu. I tried switching to English (international AltGr deadkeys) but it hasn't helped. I'm not sure if the rest of your answer in the other thread applies to me since I'm on Xubuntu. – Tom Nov 19 '14 at 17:03
  • Should work on Xubuntu too. I have a little laptop with it and the redefinition shown in my blog http://rlog.rgtti.com/2014/05/01/how-to-modify-a-keyboard-layout-in-linux/ (I have Caps Lock redefined as Compose) works ok. Mind you, I have a spanish keyboard over there... so YMMV. – Rmano Nov 19 '14 at 17:11
  • @Rmano: OK, looks like you were right. It magically started working around an hour after I changed it to English (international AltGr deadkeys. I had tried rebooting straight after I changed it, of course. Weird. Anyway, if you'd like to add that as an answer I'll mark it as correct. Cheers! – Tom Nov 19 '14 at 18:02

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That seems to be a mix between two things:

  1. the fact that the plain us keyboard has no "strange char" (smile intended) definition, as shown here, and

  2. Probably a manifestation of the layout random change bug --- it is not marked as affecting Xubuntu, but giving that affects both Unity a Gnome, you never know...

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