[Bug 285908] Re: extended ascii characters not displayed on cold boots

[Daniel]

There is a workaround for X.

Taken from:
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/alt-gr-taste-deaktiviert-sich-manchmal-selbst/#post-1854109

Run
"xmodmap -pke > .xmodmap"
in your home directory.

Than edit the file ".xmodmap" by exchanging the line
"keycode 156 = XF86Launch1 NoSymbol XF86Launch1 NoSymbol XF86Launch1"
by
"keycode 156 = ISO_Level3_Shift NoSymbol ISO_Level3_Shift NoSymbol ISO_Level3_Shift".

Than execute
"xmodmap .xmodmap".

Now the AltGr-key is working fine until you reboot the system.

To make it stable you can use
"gnome-session-properties".
Simply add "xmodmap .xmodmap" as startup command.

Note: This workaround only deals with X!

I tried the analog workaround using "loadkeys" before I found this workaround, but it failed.
The key press event was proceeded Ok, so I was able to write "@". But after releasing the "AltGr" key every key behaves still as in third level. 
This is what I did:
loadkeys<<eof
> keycode 148 = AltGr
> eof
What is wrong about that?

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extended ascii characters not displayed on cold boots
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285908
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