sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
...
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"    "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"    "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"   "fr"
        Option          "XkbVariant"  "latin9"
        Option          "XkbOptions"  "lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection
...

Puis faire un Ctrl + Alt + BackSpace pour relancer le serveur X.

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