Mathias Lichtner wrote:

> It' was a (strange?) Gnome-related problem.. although the hole Gnome was
> in german the (gnome-internal) keymap was set to "us" ...

Had the same problem. You should just edit the following file:

~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb/%gconf.xml

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