I’ve lost at least 5 hours of my life to the frikking euro key on my Microsoft Natural (old-style) keyboard. It seems that Gnome 2.10 on Ubuntu 5.04, otherwise a great combination, enjoys torturing its Dvorak keyboard layout users with the euro-symbol on the “5” key. It simply doesn’t work, no matter what you try.
After sacrificing the prerequisite 5 hours to the Linux gods of Ultimate
Non-Usability, I came up with the following solution. Make the following change
to your /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/dvorak file:
--- dvorak.ORIG 2005-09-22 11:28:18.704428504 +0200
+++ dvorak 2005-09-22 11:45:14.296035112 +0200
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
key <ae02> { [ 2, at ] };
key <ae03> { [ 3, numbersign ] };
key <ae04> { [ 4, dollar ] };
- key <ae05> { [ 5, percent ] };
+ key <ae05> { [ 5, percent, EuroSign, EuroSign ] };
key <ae06> { [ 6, asciicircum, dead_circumflex, dead_circumflex ]};
key <ae07> { [ 7, ampersand ] };
key <ae08> { [ 8, asterisk ] };
Now make sure that your right-ALT generates ISO_Level3_Shift (also known as
AltGr) by using xev. If your font and roughly 8000 other little settings
support it, pressing right-alt-5 should make a pretty euro symbol.