Re: ALT GR + <key> doesn't work

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 05:12:34PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> In italian keyboard layout to generate @ and some other chars you need to use
> ALT GR + some other key.
> 
> Now on my Debian stable it is not working, i installae it few days
> ago, th problem is present only in X server (XFree86 obviusly). My
> XF86Config-4 file contains this:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>        Driver          "keyboard"
>        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
>        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
>        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
>        Option          "XkbLayout"     "it"
>        Option          "XkbVariant"    "it"
> EndSection
> 
> I looked a bit around and this doesn't seem to be for my mistake. Is
> it rather a bug of X system?

As pointed out by Michel, the line
  Option  "XkbVariant"  "it"
is invalid and as a result your Italian layout is not loaded.
This looks pretty similar to
  http://bugs.debian.org/302591
Removing this line should fix your problem.

Denis