Dear Readers: I hope that you can help me a bit with my Gnome 3.6 struggles. Mostly, things in OpenSUSE 12.3 with Gnome 3.6 are working swimmingly. However, I cannot seem to find anyway to achieve my first or secondary goals when it comes to keyboard layouts, despite all my searching. I have two keyboard layouts. One of them is my main layout, and the other contains a host of special symbols that I use nearly as much as the main layout for certain applications. Traditionally I would have a key set to be the Mode_switch key and then pressing that key would switch me to the alternative key layout while I held down the Mode_switch key, and then, when I released that key, it would return to the original layout. In Gnome 3.6, there seems to be no way to get the keyboard layout to switch only while a certain key is pressed. Question #1: How do I enable switching keyboard layouts only while a given modifier key (Mode_switch or other) is pressed? Through all my reading I am beginning to suspect that such a thing cannot be done at all. If this is indeed the case, then I was hoping to find a way to do a decent work around. Using the tweak tool I can set Gnome to switch my layout whenever I type a certain modifier key. That's pretty good, but the key that I want to use as my modifier key is, by default, not assigned to any symbol. I can set this key as a layout switcher shortcut in the normal Gnome settings, but it doesn't actually work. If I associate it together with a modifier key, like shift, then it does work as expected. What I am looking for is a way to map this key to a key that I can use to switch the layout when I press this key. Right now, it would suffice if I could remap the key to be the right alt key together with my other right alt key (I would then have two right alt keys). I would normally do this remapping using the Xmodmap interface, but it seems that Gnome no longer loads this file at login time. What is the method for doing this now? Question #2: How do I remap an arbitrary key to be an additional right alt key? I hae scoured the internet for a solution to these questions, but I have been unable to find anything. Right now, I am at a very uncomfortable situation of using shift+key or right alt to do a switch, but only after hitting them and releasing them, not while pressed. This is very far from my ideal. I would appreciate any help that you could give me on this. i tried the IRC channel but received no response there. Yours truly, Aaron W. Hsu -- Aaron W. Hsu | arcfide@sacrideo.us | http://www.sacrideo.us לֵ֤ב חֲכָמִים֙ בְּבֵ֣ית אֵ֔בֶל וְלֵ֥ב כְּסִילִ֖ים בְּבֵ֥ית שִׂמְחָֽה׃