Being a French Canadian, I like to have easy access to accents like èéÀ, but would like to modify their locations and replace them by {}[] for programming purposes (currently located on level 3 of keys 7 8 9 0 ).
I figured I should modify the file corresponding to Canadian Multilingual Standard layout. I found it in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols, in the ca file. I modified the entries for "Canadian Multilingual", then called setxkbmap ca multix. Modifications didn't work.
I opened another Xserver window (sudo xinit -- :2), called setxkbmap ca multi again, no effect. I rebooted, to no avail. I still see the modifications in the config file.
Am I modyfing the good file? I ran sudo find -name xkb -print to see if I was modifying in the wrong folder, but all other folders named as is were empty/full of gibberish
P.S.: Using ubuntu 12.04
P.P.S.: I checked all folders in xkb/symbols, to no avail.
I had the same problem. It seems Ubuntu stores cached copies of the keyboard layouts in /var/lib/xkb.
What worked for me was deleting the xkm files in /var/lib/xkb: sudo rm /var/lib/xkb/*.xkm and logout and in again.
This solved the issue for me.
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