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canhoto
October 18th, 2011, 08:01 PM
Do you know how can we activate the 3rd level with a specific key, or define the alt, win, etc. behaviour, on the keyboard on Xubuntu 11.04? I don't see the options in the keyboard settings

Chonnawonga
October 21st, 2011, 08:20 PM
I'm no expert in this, but I've been trying to figure out similar issues, and this is what I've come up with.

Open up your /etc/default/keyboard file:

sudo leafpad /etc/default/keyboard

You'll see a line like this:

XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch"

That's the one you want to play with. I don't know exactly what the options are, but I just deleted everything within the quotation marks to stop using the right alt key as a third-level chooser.

There are two important things to note:
1. Note that you must restart for changes to take effect!
2. There's another file in the default directory called "console-setup" which includes the same options. I don't know why this stuff is duplicated, but it is.

If anyone has more information or a better solution, I'm all ears!