diff --git a/data/keyboards/geometry/compact.xml b/data/keyboards/geometry/compact.xml
index b0942e2b..1fe0d7f5 100644
--- a/data/keyboards/geometry/compact.xml
+++ b/data/keyboards/geometry/compact.xml
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
   <button name="preferences" oref="altline" />
   <button name="show_numbers" oref="altline" keycode="0" />
   <button name="show_letters" oref="altline" keycode="0" />
+  <button name="show_symbols" oref="altline" keycode="0" />
   <button name="space" oref="spaceline" />
   <button name="return" oref="outline7" />
 
@@ -90,15 +91,15 @@
     <section angle="0"> show_numbers preferences         space        period    Return    </section>
   </view>
   <view>
-    <section angle="0">1 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 0</section>
+    <section angle="0">1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0</section>
     <section angle="0">at numbersign dollar percent ampersand minus underscore plus parenleft parenright</section>
-    <section angle="0"> Shift_L   comma quotedbl quoteright colon semicolon exclam question  BackSpace </section>
+    <section angle="0"> show_symbols   comma quotedbl quoteright colon semicolon exclam question  BackSpace </section>
     <section angle="0"> show_letters preferences         space        period    Return    </section>
   </view>
   <view>
     <section angle="0">asciitilde quoteleft bar U00B7 squareroot Greek_pi Greek_tau division multiply paragraph</section>
     <section angle="0">copyright U00AE U00A3 EuroSign U00A5 asciicircum degree asterisk braceleft braceright</section>
-    <section angle="0"> Shift_L   backslash slash less greater equal bracketleft bracketright  BackSpace </section>
+    <section angle="0"> show_numbers   backslash slash less greater equal bracketleft bracketright  BackSpace </section>
     <section angle="0"> show_letters preferences         space        period    Return    </section>
   </view>
 </geometry>
diff --git a/data/keyboards/symbols/us.xml b/data/keyboards/symbols/us.xml
index d058b4ae..10f986f6 100644
--- a/data/keyboards/symbols/us.xml
+++ b/data/keyboards/symbols/us.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ASCII' standalone='yes'?>
 <symbols version="0.90">
   <symbol label="*">asterisk</symbol>
+  <symbol label="+/=">show_symbols</symbol>
   <key name="AD01">
     <symbol label="q">q</symbol>
     <symbol label="Q">Q</symbol>
diff --git a/eek/eek-keyboard.c b/eek/eek-keyboard.c
index fe149e9f..19eb6bb2 100644
--- a/eek/eek-keyboard.c
+++ b/eek/eek-keyboard.c
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ set_level_from_press (LevelKeyboard *keyboard, EekKey *key)
             level = 2;
         } else if (g_strcmp0(name, "show_letters") == 0) {
             level = 0;
+        } else if (g_strcmp0(name, "show_symbols") == 0) {
+            level = 3;
         } else if (g_strcmp0(name, "Shift_L") == 0) {
             level ^= 1;
         }