Remapping characters in xmodmap

Question

I am using a Swedish keyboard, and I want to be able to type braces easier.

I planned to map AltGr + å to '}' and AltGr + ä to '{'. However, nothing really changes. I have some other stuff in my .Xmodmap so I know that it gets loaded allright. Here's what I have so far:

keycode 35 = slash asciitilde dead_ogonek section dead_ogonek section
keycode 49 = asciicircum onehalf
keycode 66 = F10
clear Lock
keycode 34 = aring Aring braceleft
keycode 48 = adiaeresis Adiaeresis braceright 

where the 2 last lines are the one that should be related to this. What could I be doing wrong?

Is there some other way I can solve it in Linux?

Update:

keycode 34 = aring Aring aring Aring braceleft dead_abovering
keycode 48 = adiaeresis Adiaeresis adiaeresis Adiaeresis braceright ae

Works fine.

Answer 1

Have you tried

xmodmap -pke

and checked that these lines still appear in that form in the output? There could be other startup scripts that override some of your settings...