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Skybrod

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Registered: 2016-08-21

Posts: 8

Level 3 key stopped working

I have recently switched from KDE to dwm.

For some reason, my Level 3 key stopped working, that is nothing happens when I press Level 3 + other key on the keyboard. Just the other key is printed. My Level 3 was on LAlt. I of course rebinded the dwm's default Modkey (LAlt) to Win. I have also tried rebinding Level 3 to different keys with setxkbmap. Other xkb options work fine.

The output of

 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,ru,ara
variant:    ,,
options:    lv3:lalt_switch,grp:rctrl_toggle,ctrl:nocaps,compose:prsc
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+us+ru:2+ara:3+inet(evdev)+group(rctrl_toggle)+level3(lalt_switch)+ctrl(nocaps)+compose(prsc)
geometry:   pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"	};
	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us+ru:2+ara:3+inet(evdev)+group(rctrl_toggle)+level3(lalt_switch)+ctrl(nocaps)+compose(prsc)"	};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
};

The output of xev:

KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window
0x800001,
    root 0x139, subw 0x0, time 6423958, (793,450), root:(794,469),
    state 0x80, keycode 64 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,685

Re: Level 3 key stopped working

Try w/ only the us layout (or any other, but *one* only)

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Skybrod

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Registered: 2016-08-21

Posts: 8

Re: Level 3 key stopped working

Try w/ only the us layout (or any other, but *one* only)

Do you mean something like this?

 setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -option lv3:lalt_switch 

If yes, then nothing changed, unfortunately.

Btw, I store all my extra symbols in the typo file in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols. This worked earlier, but can this somehow be the problem?