Keyboard layout – strange behaviour

[Johnny Rosenberg]

I have had my own keyboard layout for years now, I think at least since
2008 or so. I call it ”Johnny Rosenberg” and it works perfectly. The actual
keyboard (the hardware) is Swedish and I am too. Surprise…

Today I finally did some changes since I was kind of annoyed about some
character locations. The change involved two keys.
Before change:
7-key (at the line above the ”qwerty” line):
|
Shift → /
AltGr → {
Shift+AltGr → /

¨-key (at the ”qwerty” line to the right of the ”å” key:
¨ (dead key)
Shift → ^ (dead key)
AltGr → ~
Shift+AltGr → ˇ (dead key)

Now I want to move three characters around a bit: /, | and ¨.
After change:
7-key (at the line above the ”qwerty” line):
/
Shift → ¨ (dead key)
AltGr → {
Shift+AltGr → /

¨-key (at the ”qwerty” line to the right of the ”å” key:
|
Shift → ^ (dead key)
AltGr → ~
Shift+AltGr → ˇ (dead key)


So I made the necessary changes to /usr/sgare/X11/xkb/symbols/se and I even
restarted the computer.
I also selected another layout, then my own layout again and so on, but no
matter what I do (so far, at least), my old layout is still used. The
layout view thing tells me my new layout, but the result of pressing keys
still gives me the old one!

How do the system even know my old layout? It's removed from the system! Or
isn't it? I could easily change the layout like this in earlier Ubuntu
versions, is something added now, like I need to ”compile” the files or
something? At least that wasn't needed when I added my layout right after
doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04. I just replaced the se file with my
own (and also the evdev.xml and evdev.lst, but there are no further changes
needed in those in this particular case).

Ideas?



Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
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