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I'm running Xubuntu 14.04 with an Apple USB QWERTY keyboard. Up until last week, RAlt was working fine as my compose key and Ctr-Shift-U was working for Unicode entry. However, it has stopped working.

Here is the keyboard layout in /etc/default/keyboard:

XKBMODEL="apple"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:lalt_switch,compose:ralt"

I have "Use system defaults" selected in Settings-->Keyboard-->Layout.

I tried re-running sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration but it didn't help.

Is there anything else I can try? I'm not having a lot of fun typing French and German without a compose key at the moment!

Thanks,

Tom

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That seems to be a mix between two things:

  1. the fact that the plain us keyboard has no "strange char" (smile intended) definition, as shown here, and

  2. Probably a manifestation of the layout random change bug --- it is not marked as affecting Xubuntu, but giving that affects both Unity a Gnome, you never know...

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