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xserver-xorg-input-evdev package

  1. Bug #30562
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 30562

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote : Re: Acer € and $ + special laptop keys

Anyone interested may see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal-info/+bug/281951
where a solution was proposed for some of the Acer 5920 keys.

About € and $, (untested)
I think you may map them to some scancodes,
and then use loadkeys to map these scancodes to strings '€' and '$'.