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Merry-Widower
Asked: 2020-10-29 13:07:43 +0800 CST

Cannot use Ruble sign on Russian keyboard layout

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With a Russian keyboard layout, I cannot access the Russian Ruble symbol ₽ with Alt Gr + 8.

Does anyone have a solution for this, or is this fixed in newer Ubuntu versions? I use Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.

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  1. Best Answer

    The final solution depends on the desktop environment in use:

    • For Cinnamon you need to

      1. Make left mouse click on layout switcher in tray, select Keyboard Settings
      2. Go to Layouts tab
      3. Click Options
      4. Set Key to choose the 3rd level to Right Alt
      5. Click Close
      6. Close Keyboard configuration window
      7. Switch keyboard layout to Russian
      8. Click RightAlt+8 to write the Ruble symbol (₽)

    • For KDE you need to

      1. Make right mouse click on layout switcher in tray, select Configure Layouts
      2. Go to Advanced tab
      3. Check Configure keyboard options
      4. Set Key to choose the 3rd level to Right Alt
      5. Click OK
      6. Switch keyboard layout to Russian
      7. Click RightAlt+8 to write the Ruble symbol (₽)

    • For GNOME desktop you need to

      1. Install GNOME Tweaks by sudo apt-get install gnome-tweaks
      2. Launch Tweaks application
      3. Go to Keyboard & Mouse tab
      4. Click on Additional Layout Options
      5. Set Key to choose the 3rd level to Right Alt
      6. Close Additional Layout Options window and close Tweaks application
      7. Switch keyboard layout to Russian
      8. Click RightAlt+8 to write the Ruble symbol (₽)

    • For MATE desktop you need to set this in Keyboard Preferences (mate-keyboard-properties):

      1. On Layouts tab add Russian keyboard layout
      2. Click Options
      3. Set Key to choose the 3rd level to Right Alt
      4. Close Keyboard Preferences window
      5. Switch keyboard layout to Russian
      6. Click RightAlt+8 to write the Ruble symbol (₽)

    • For Xfce, LXDE, LxQT:

      1. Open terminal
      2. Open Nano editor to edit keyboard configuration file by sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard
      3. Add lv3:ralt_switch to the XKBOPTIONS variable
      4. Save the file with Ctrl+O, close editor with Ctrl+X
      5. Rebuild initrams with sudo update-initramfs -u -k all
      6. Reboot and login to desktop session
      7. Switch keyboard layout to Russian
      8. Click RightAlt+8 to write the Ruble symbol (₽)
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