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Re: Wrong Keyboard

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NP2 <NP2@somewhere.invalid> writes:
> 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.
> > 
> 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.
> 

There is a difference between the locale and keyboard used.  They are two
separate things.  Most distros default to using a US keyboard, regardless of
the locale setting.

(I discovered this when trying to translate PC keypress hardware scancodes
to GTK+ key definitions.)

Normally the distro is set to use the keyboard file
"/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/zz" where the 'zz' indicates which keyboard
configuration file is being used in your computer.  In most cases with
distros defaulting to the US 102-key keyboard, the 'zz' is just 'pc', but it
also might well be "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gb"

The directory "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols" contains about 120 sets of
keyboard definitions.

There is a web page which explains things much better that I can:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Custom%20keyboard%20layout%20definitions

Jack






-- 
My wife says I have two faults:
I don't listen and something else.

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  Re: Wrong Keyboard Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> - 2022-01-17 14:09 +0000
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