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Norwegian keyboard keys don't work with Ubuntu in VirtualBox

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Mar 15, 20262086 views
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I just installed VirtualBox (from Oracle) in Windows 7, and created a virtual machine with latest Ubuntu. Here in Firefox I can use the left Ctrl key, while the right one doesn't have any effect. However, I can't use the AltGr key (also known as Right Alt) to produce e.g. curly braces like {} (I pa…

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Fix for: Norwegian keyboard keys don't work with Ubuntu in VirtualBox

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I got the AltGr key working in Ubuntu. I just had to know that I should create a file called ".Xmodmap" and add this line: "keycode 113 = Mode_switch Multi_key". Which I found in a bug report about a similar issue, at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubun…

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