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Excubia

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Registered: 2015-08-02

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[Solved] AltGr key not working in Firefox + Gnome

Pretty simple problem:

I use Gnome and I have a problem with the AltGr key.

I works with Chrome, gedit and the terminal.

I doesn't in both Firefox and Thunderbird.

What can I do?

Last edited by Excubia (2015-08-13 12:35:45)

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

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Re: [Solved] AltGr key not working in Firefox + Gnome

Hi, have you tested whether it works in a non-Gnome environment (e.g. XFCE, or just a window manager like openbox)?

Perhaps there is some unfortunate interaction between whatever Gnome is doing, and Mozilla's runtime library (XUL, I guess).

Have you got some special key mapping? Some applications don't seem to cope well with custom keybindings (although in my case AltGr-related issues usually arise in Java applications and some obscurely old Qt applications).

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Excubia

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Registered: 2015-08-02

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Re: [Solved] AltGr key not working in Firefox + Gnome

Thx for your reply.

I tried on Xfce and Openbox. I had the same problem there too.

I use a Macbook air and I did remap the right cmd key to ISO_Level_3 :

cat ~/.Xmodmap
keycode 134 = ISO_Level3_Shift

Notice that even the usual AltGr key at the right of the right cmd key does not work!

Suppressing the Xmodmap settings make the "natural" AltGr key work again in Firefox.

SOLUTION: I replace the Xmodmap mess, with the nice Archlinux Wiki solution

Last edited by Excubia (2015-08-13 12:38:46)