I've just quickly followed the dependencies for keyboard input. It looks like alacritty depends on glutin which for linux depends on winit and I found the following lines are commented out in the most recent version src/api/x11/events.rs#L177 and src/api/x11/events.rs#L270.

This seems to be relevant to my issue but I am unsure why it has been commented out. If this is the reason then the layout of my keyboard is irrelevant and most likely other linux users would have the same problem.

Having encountered the issue while using alacritty I'm submitting an issue here but should I also post an issue on winit? Or is there another reason for this issue?