I just swapped from Windows and I was used to using Alt+Shift to type special characters such as |@#~½¬from the number row, but it only works with Alt Gr on Ubuntu. It's not in the settings either so I figured xmodmap is the way to go. But the only way to make it work I've found is by remapping every single special character, like keycode 21 = equal plus equal plus semicolon colon.
Is there any way of copying Alt Gr to Alt+Shift?
Answer
I've come to the conclusion after hours of trying that it is not possible with Autokey, xmodmap or setxkbmap to copy AltGr to Alt_L and Shift_L.
Autokey doesn't allow a shortcut like Alt+Shift, since it also needs another character. Alt, Shift, Control... only count as combinations with other keys and they won't work by themselves
xmodmap should have worked with
xmodmap -e "keysym Meta_L = ISO_Level3_Shift"but it only assigns the function to Alt_L, Shift_L does something similar, typing different special characters. Besides, when this is activated, these keys will only work for that purpose (You can't do Alt+Tab etc)setxkbmap should have worked too with
setxkbmap -option Meta_L:ISO_Level3_Shiftbut it apparently does nothing. When tested withxevit does change the input key but it's something different from ISO_Level3_Shift
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