Hi, I saw something similar so decided to share it here. Maybe it will help you.
I have this in my /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us key <TLDE> { [ grave, asciitilde, dead_grave, dead_tilde ] }; key <AE06> { [ 6,asciicircum, dead_circumflex, dead_caron ] }; key <AE11> { [ minus, underscore, dead_macron, degree ] }; key <AD11> { [ bracketleft, braceleft, guillemotleft, dead_doublegrave ] }; key <AD12> { [bracketright, braceright, guillemotright, dead_doubleacute ] }; key <AC11> { [apostrophe, quotedbl, dead_acute, dead_diaeresis ] }; key <AB08> { [ comma, less, dead_cedilla, dead_ogonek ] }; key <AB10> { [ slash, question, questiondown, dead_stroke ] }; key <BKSL> { [ backslash, bar, dead_greek, brokenbar ] }; key <LSGT> { [ backslash, bar, dead_greek, brokenbar ] }; (from https://www.choam.eu/altgr-intl/#weur) Running setupconf gives me 8 warnings: Mar 10 15:36:22 msi console-setup.sh[560]: WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_greek" Mar 10 15:36:22 msi console-setup.sh[560]: WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_greek" Mar 10 15:36:22 msi console-setup.sh[560]: WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_greek" Mar 10 15:36:22 msi console-setup.sh[560]: WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_greek" Mar 10 15:36:22 msi console-setup.sh[560]: WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_greek" Mar 10 15:36:22 msi console-setup.sh[560]: WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_greek" Mar 10 15:36:22 msi console-setup.sh[560]: WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_greek" Mar 10 15:36:22 msi console-setup.sh[560]: WARNING: Unknown X keysym "dead_greek" dead_grave, dead_circumflex, dead_tilde, dead_acute, dead_cedilla, and dead_diaeresis work as intended on the console, the other dead keys spit out the normal characters. In X all the dead keys work as intended. Did you check your logs? My system: -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages console-setup depends on: ii console-setup-linux 1.200 ii debconf 1.5.74 ii keyboard-configuration 1.200 ii xkb-data 2.29-2 console-setup recommends no packages. Versions of packages console-setup suggests: ii locales 2.31-9 ii lsb-base 11.1.0 Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on: ii debconf 1.5.74 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-4+b1 Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.60 ii initscripts 2.96-5 ii kbd 2.3.0-3 ii keyboard-configuration 1.200 console-setup-linux suggests no packages. Versions of packages console-setup is related to: pn console-common <none> pn console-data <none> pn console-tools <none> pn gnome-control-center <none> ii kbd 2.3.0-3 ii systemd 247.2-5 -- debconf information: keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8 console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15 console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages console-setup/fontface47: Fixed console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true console-setup/fontsize: 8x16 console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16 keyboard-configuration/optionscode: ctrl:nocaps keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true console-setup/framebuffer_only: keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true * keyboard-configuration/layout: English (US) keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105 keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key console-setup/guess_font: keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us console-setup/use_system_font: keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch keyboard-configuration/variantcode: altgr-weur keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16 debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title: keyboard-configuration/other: * keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true * keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key PC (intl.) * keyboard-configuration/variant: English (US) - English (intl., with AltGr dead keys) greetings, Johan