Games don't recieve keyboard input

I have tried a few games so far, minecraft (Java + LWJGL) terasology (Java + LWJGL) and assault cube (SDL and C++?) and every time, the applications refuse to accept most keyboard input. The only keys that work are the arrow keys and the numpad keys.
It is odd because in assault cube, when I try to set a keybinding, it says something like "key binding failed". So it detects the input but chooses to reject it?
I have xf86-input-evdev installed.
Input works perfectly on every other application.

Hi,
so, I use a swedish keyboard layout, I have this in my ~/.xinitrc
setxkbmap se -option caps:none &
In minecraft, some "special keys" does not register. As far as LWJGL is concerned, they are NONE, or KEY_0. If I change to us layout with
setxkbmap us
I can bind those special keys just fine, like GRAVE for example. With SE (or DK, or NO...) they register as KEY_0. How can I solve this?

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