Another keyboard layout problem
Hi folks,
I have a Toshiba notebook (company machine, personally I would never buy it)
with a US keyboard where the right Alt key is missing.
My locale is set to en-US.UTF-8.
I use KDE and use the keyboard layout changing applet for changing between
US and german layout.
On my machine at home (with a real keyboard) I have the same configuration.
If I change there to german layout, I can type the Euro-sign and other
special characters by using the right Alt key (which should be Alt-Gr on
german keyboards). I'd like to have the same function on my company laptop.
however, as the right Alt key is missing there I considered to map it to
the left Windows key for which I don't have and usage.
I tried to use xmodmap to switch the keys and it works partially.
I can now type some of the special characters on the US-layout, but when I
switch to german layout it seems to rewrite and forget the xmodmap changes.
On the german layout I cannot use the special charactrers anymore. When I
switch back to US layout, it stays like that.
Also, the Euro sign and many other special characters, which work at home
are gone on my notebook. It seems, that the system recognizes the key
pressed, but does not display the character. It just shows nothing.
Does anyone have a solution for this strange behavior?
Cheers
Arne
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