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dessaya

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Registered: 2015-10-03

Posts: 12

Gnome 3 - Latin american keyboard layout just not right

Hi everyone,

I have a Samsung Ativ Book Series 9 (model NP900X3E) and it has a Latin American keyboard layout: https://www.terena.org/activities/multi … html#Latin

In Gnome 3 I want to use the "Spanish (Latin American, eliminate dead keys)". When it is enabled and I press the "<" key (less than) I get a "\" (inverted slash) instead. Also, the "}" key (close curly bracket) prints a "ç" (cedilla).

Some info that might be relevant:

$ localectl status
   System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: la-latin1
      X11 Layout: latam
       X11 Model: pc105
     X11 Variant: nodeadkeys

$ setxkbmap -print -verbose 10
Setting verbose level to 10
locale is C
Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...
Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...
Success.
Applied rules from evdev:
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us,latam,latam,us
variant:    altgr-intl,,nodeadkeys,
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+us(altgr-intl)+latam:2+latam(nodeadkeys):3+us:4+inet(evdev)
geometry:   pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"	};
	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us(altgr-intl)+latam:2+latam(nodeadkeys):3+us:4+inet(evdev)"	};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
};

Any ideas? Is this a bug or something that I might have misconfigured?

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by dessaya (2015-10-03 23:24:27)

dessaya

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Registered: 2015-10-03

Posts: 12

Re: Gnome 3 - Latin american keyboard layout just not right

So inspecting the Latam layout from Gnome 3 I get this diagram, in which I highlighted some wrong keys:

(Actually the "< >" key is ok in the diagram, but when I press it the result is "\".)

josx

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Registered: 2020-08-21

Posts: 2

Re: Gnome 3 - Latin american keyboard layout just not right

Did you fix it? how?

Same problem here just with < and > , but if i change it by command line with

setxkbmap -layout latam

It works.