"Alt Gr" in X not working

Hey guys,
I just installed archlinux recently on my notebook. Everything works just fine, but my "Alt Gr" Button on my keyboard is not working. I checked a lot of websites and posts on message board, but could find a proper solution.
I am using English locales, but with a german Keyboard. The "Alt Gr" key is working in the terminal, but not in apps like Chromium or any other under X.
My xorg.conf part for the Keyboard looks like that:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
The localization part from my rc.conf looks like that:
# LOCALIZATION
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Brussels"
KEYMAP="de-latin1-nodeadkeys"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP="8859-1_to_uni.trans"
USECOLOR="yes"
VERBOSE="3"
Thank you very much for any hints!

Hello Jankosevic,
You say "Alt Gr" but I don't see it anywhere in your xorg.conf --- maybe add it in there first? (See /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst)
If all else fails, you could just write a shell script that uses the "setxkbmap" command to change up your keyboard layout (the new layouts chosen by this command are universal and should work across all of your windows in X --- it does for me very reliably).
For me, I stopped relying on xorg.conf for setting up keyboard layouts ("us,fr,de") because the layout switching keys stopped working recently (grp:shifts_toggle); I use setxkbmap now.
EDIT: Oops, you only have 1 layout. Sorry, I was hallucinating that you had multiple layouts and had trouble switching between them. Please disregard this post...
Last edited by listdata (2011-06-20 18:59:39)

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