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how to enable a new keyboard layout



Hi,

On Wheezy, I am  trying to enable a new keyboard layout.
Normally, I did it by:
- creating a /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/01-keyboard-layout.conf
  file with a following contents:

    Section "InputClass"
        Identifier             "keyboard-layout"
        MatchIsKeyboard        "on"
        Option "XkbLayout"     "us, sk"
        Option "XkbOptions"    "grp:alts_toggle"
    EndSection

When I do that and restart Xorg, in /var/log/Xorg.0.log I see:

  [   961.970] (II) evdev: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device: Configuring as
keyboard
  [   961.970] (**) Option "config_info"
"udev:/sys/devices/virtual/input/input10/event10"
  [   961.970] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
  [   961.970] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
  [   961.970] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us, sk"
  [   961.970] (**) Option "xkb_variant" ",qwerty"
  [   961.970] (**) Option "xkb_options" "grp:alts_toggle"

but I can't switch keyboard layouts (by pressing both Alt-keys).
I have tried different grp;* options, but without effect.

I would be grateful for any advice how to proceed: how to configure Xorg
so that I can switch keyboard layouts with some convenient
keyboard-shortcut. Thanks in advance.

(When I try this:

	setxkbmap sk qwerty

 everything seems to work fine.
)


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