Re: Wrong Keyboard

From	pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.mint
Subject	Re: Wrong Keyboard
Date	2022-01-17 10:20 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<20220117102035.9faf2363be908d4d5d6e60a7@gmail.com> (permalink)
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:18:49 +0100
NP2 <NP2@somewhere.invalid> wrote:

> pinnerite wrote:
> > I installed Mint 20.3 with locale etc all pointing to English UK.
> > 
> > Yet the keyboard produces US keyboard characters. e.g.
> > The pound symbol produces a hash, double quotes generates the @ symbol.
> > 
> > System settings->Languages shows only UK English!
> > 
> > What further can I do?
> > 
> 
> Keyboard layouts in Mint are a mess. I have a similar problem when 
> running a Mint live session: no matter what option I choose in keyboard 
> layout settings, it keeps using US qwerty instead of BE azerty.
> 
> The only quick solution I found is to type
> 
> setxkbmap be
> 
> in a terminal, that immediately fixes it. Don't know if that'll help you 
> on an installed version though.

$ setxkbmap gb

That certainly worked. Will be permanant. I cannot reboot until later.

Thank you. Alan

-- 
Mint 20.3, kernel 5.4.0-95-generic, Cinnamon 5.2.7
running on an AMD Phenom II X4 Black edition processor with 16GB of DRAM.

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