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elotgamu

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From: Masaya, Nicaragua

Registered: 2013-10-25

Posts: 21

Alt + combination disabled only in Xorg

Hello, well I cannot print the characters with  left alt key + number combination (such as #, >, < and the rest of them). The problem is that in tty it work perfectly.

My laptop has a us keyboard design with numeric keys but typing "left alt + numbers combination" (such as alt+62) does not work in X session.

I have a "setxkbmap es" in .xinitrc because of this and I prefer this distribution
and at the final part of booting proccess journalctl shows :

dic 23 13:34:09 AVI slim[749]: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
dic 23 13:34:09 AVI slim[749]: > Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
dic 23 13:34:09 AVI slim[749]: >                   Ignoring extra symbols
dic 23 13:34:09 AVI slim[749]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
dic 23 13:34:09 AVI NetworkManager[733]: <info> (wlp2s0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> inactive
dic 23 13:34:10 AVI slim[749]: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
dic 23 13:34:10 AVI slim[749]: > Warning:          Compat map for group 2 redefined
dic 23 13:34:10 AVI slim[749]: >                   Using new definition
dic 23 13:34:10 AVI slim[749]: > Warning:          Compat map for group 3 redefined
dic 23 13:34:10 AVI slim[749]: >                   Using new definition
dic 23 13:34:10 AVI slim[749]: > Warning:          Compat map for group 4 redefined
dic 23 13:34:10 AVI slim[749]: >                   Using new definition
dic 23 13:34:10 AVI slim[749]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
....

dic 23 13:34:19 AVI slim[749]: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
dic 23 13:34:19 AVI slim[749]: > Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
dic 23 13:34:19 AVI slim[749]: >                   Ignoring extra symbols
dic 23 13:34:19 AVI slim[749]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

I commented the lines in /usr/share/X11/xkb/compat/basic as posted here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1105212

//   group 2 = AltGr;
//    group 3 = AltGr;
//    group 4 = AltGr;

But I cannot start Xorg after doing that

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf I have:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "es"
EndSection

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English is not my first language! Sorry for bad grammmar skills!