[SOLVED] AltGr key suddenly isn't AltGr anymore

My AltGr key all of a sudden seems to have changed into a normal Alt key, so I'm unable to produce a couple of characters. Any idea what's going on? Apart from a "sudo pacman -Syu" I didn't do anything regarding any configuration or system things.
My keyboard layout in Xfce 'Settings' dialogue is also still the same as always, I just checked that.
(Well and pressing CTRL+ALT together to "emulate" ALT+GR doesn't work either.)
If I press ALT+CTRL+F1 to switch to a virtual terminal, there AltGr key actually works fine in there! So it's just under Xfce apparently (and in the login screen too).
Last edited by Jindur (2012-03-01 14:19:46)

Try (re)setting your keyboard layout with the following command. Replace "be" with whatever your desired layout is. List is normally found in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst)
setxkbmap be
If that indeed solves your problem, you can then put the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf (again replace "be" with whatever your desired layout is obviously).
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "be"
EndSection

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