On Friday 15 January 2016, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > Hello all, > This works fine, except that I often loose the function of the "Alt Gr" key > (for those who only know the US keyboard, Alt Gr is necessary to access a > bunch of characters we use in non-English languages. > This is independent from distribution (I had hoped that switching to Jessie > and 14.0.2 would help, but not). > > What I don't know is what is causing the problem. The rest of the keyboard > layout continues to work, only Alt Gr is gone. So far only loging out and > in cures the problem. > > Anyone has a clue to what causes this? Same problem here. It seems to be new, I'm on R14.0.2 (on Mint). I haven't observed this before. I searched for a work around without necessity to log out (to many open windows to restall) and I found one. I opened the Keyboard Layout dialog and un-checked the Enable Keyboard Layouts" (switched it off" and voila, the Alt-Gr reapears again. Now a solution but better than nothing. Gerhard