was going into settings > input devices > keyboard and choosing a keyboard layout such as en (US, symbolic) in order to get symbols under the ISO Shift key... also selected Right Alt for the shift key and Right Ctrl for compose key.
it worked long enough for me to map out where all the symbols were on my keyboard, but then it stopped working and no matter what i change the settings too, i'm back on bog standard en (US default).
there was even a time when the desktop was getting laggy and for a while i had no keyboard inputs at all showing on the screen.
what i've tried:
new user works fine with a new user, but oddly layout settings changes made in my main profile were also in the new user
restored timeshift image of the system from prior to my experimenting... no difference.
restored backintime copy of my entire /home dir... no difference
at a loss for how to get this working again.
it worked long enough for me to map out where all the symbols were on my keyboard, but then it stopped working and no matter what i change the settings too, i'm back on bog standard en (US default).
there was even a time when the desktop was getting laggy and for a while i had no keyboard inputs at all showing on the screen.
what i've tried:
new user works fine with a new user, but oddly layout settings changes made in my main profile were also in the new user
restored timeshift image of the system from prior to my experimenting... no difference.
restored backintime copy of my entire /home dir... no difference
at a loss for how to get this working again.