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In keyboard settings, you can look at a preview of the layout you have configured. It's in the menu on the right of each keyboard entry in the list.
By default there was no layout enabled in that option but can add new ones. Anyway thanks for the tips
Yes, it depends on the layout. For example, I use the “English (Macintosh)” variant of the US layout. It has bindings for level 3 shift on all keys pretty much.
I also now set it to macintosh variant. But can I assign it to right shift instead of alt? I need the alt but there seems to be no option for using shift
It doesn't seem to be available as part of the standard modifiers. You can probably have it as part of a custom layout, but I have no idea about how to do that.
As far as I understand those selectors work, using
shift
as the level 3 modifier is a bad idea since ....SHIFT
+ keyL3
+ keySHIFT
+L3
+ keyL5
+ keyL5
+SHIFT
+ keyI suppose customizing the keyboard layout such that
SHIFT
can be used as L3 modifier can be done. Otherwise, you might want to refer to/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst
.Here's the relevant part(s):