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How do I set the 'Alternate Characters Key' to 'Enabled' in Xubuntu?

As far as I can tell, the right alt key does nothing special in Xubuntu 16.04 LTS.

I’m looking for an easy way to type special characters like; ¢ © ”“ without hand-typing unicode. What am I missing here?

Thanks, Lance

Lance Haverkamp
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Milan's comment solved it for me:

Settings > Keyboard > Layout. I had 'use system defaults = TRUE'; changed to false, kept model as generic 105-key PC, but changed layout from English (UK) to English (UK, extended, Windows), and it worked.

(2025-02-20, Xubuntu 24.10)

dez93_2000
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One thing you need to do is add a keyboard layout that has usage of the AltGr (Right Alt) key.

I'm writing this on XUbuntu 16.04 LTS with Serbian (Latin) keyboard layout, and AltGr works like a charm right out of the box. For example, I'm able to type @\|€, etc without an issue.

If you need help adding keyboard layouts try searching the net, or look at this article.

You can check the keycode that your AltGr key returns by running xev command in the terminal. Then, press your AltGr key, which should return (in the second row) something like:

keycode 108 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift)
Milan Oparnica
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