Problem with the keyboard layout in Emacs (ubuntu 12.04)

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Published on 2012-05-08T11:27:42Z Indexed on 2012/06/01 16:51 UTC
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I've got some problems with the keyboard layout. I have a french AZERTY keyboard. When I switch to another layout (I tested both programmer DVORAK and Greek) everything seems fine. However, in emacs, I have a more unexpected (at least for me) behavior.

For example, in DVORAK, I thought to obtain:

On my french Keyboard -> DVORAK

X -> Q

Alt-X -> Alt-Q

But I have:

X -> Q

Alt-X -> Alt-X

When I press the Alt key, the layout change seems to be inactivated. I precise I didn't activated any shortcut containing the Alt key for the layout switching. Moreover, I'm not sure this behavior is restricted to Emacs, but I don't use shortcuts like Alt-... in another application. Is a such behavior normal ? And in this case, how can I use a shortcut like Alt-Q when I switch to DVORAK ?

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