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How to change Gnome Keyboard [ was Re: HOW ' s]

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Hi,

PS: Useful title make it easier for other to know what you ask for.

Please think a minute and use common sense.


On 2021-08-04 4:04 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> gone @ $€ (wrong keyboard)
> How it happened: 
> During Debian installation, I chose a linux version 4.19.0-17-686-pae
> from a mirror.
> I lost (nb.UTF-8 or similar) setup (Norwegian bokmål) in
> Macintosh-no-dead-keys.
> I couldn't find a list of available keyboards in Gnome desktop, then
> recalled I found it in Xfce once before (hopefully in Debian) so I wrote
> in Terminal: 
> su
> root password
> # apt install task-xfce-desktop
> then tried to remove the Gnome desktop, wrote:
> # apt remove task-gnome-desktop
> Terminal responded but nothing happened; Gnome not removed, Xfce not
> visible.
> Tried Synaptic, it said it would not execute actions unless I remove
> Wayland. How?
1st "task-gnome-desktop" is only a reference (virtual package). It's a
empty package that has dependencies on all the packages needed to run
Gnome Desktop.
> I can learn to use the Gnome desktop, but I really need to change this
> keyboard.
Yes you can learn Gnome desktop.
Have you tried searching on Google "how to change keyboard in Gnome" ?
I've just did so and got at least 20 different simple explanation.

https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/keyboard-layouts.html.en

https://askubuntu.com/questions/41480/how-do-i-change-my-keyboard-layout-in-gnome-shell

Also, removing a package for the sole purpose of changing the keyboard
seem to me like the worst way of doing things.
Maybe you shall chill down a bit and try doing some research.

Also, most of us here speak mostly English. If you want to have your
answer in norvegian then it will be hard. So you'd better keep your
localisation (the texts in which the software display itself) in English.
This doesn't prevent you from changing the keyboard.

Also, have you took time to read the Debian wiki BEFORE doing what you did ?

https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard

This shall be a good start. Another one would be reading the Debian
Handbook and user manual, again BEFORE trying to do stuff.

It's not because help is available and menu exists that make the process
seem like a click yes, click yes, click yes, click no. That it's a good
way to do. May starting to get good habits BEFORE really getting into a
mess.

https://debian-handbook.info/

https://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals

aka RTFM
> BR,
> Gunnar
> 

-- 
Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside
-Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development

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HOW ' s Gunnar Gervin <dofeelok@gmail.com> - 2021-08-04 10:10 +0200
  How to change desktop [ was Re: HOW ' s] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-04 12:30 +0200
  How to change Gnome Keyboard [ was Re: HOW ' s] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-04 12:30 +0200
  Re: HOW ' s Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> - 2021-08-04 14:50 +0200
    Re: HOW change keyboard Gunnar Gervin <dofeelok@gmail.com> - 2021-08-05 10:40 +0200
      Re: HOW change keyboard <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-05 11:00 +0200
      Re: HOW change keyboard Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-05 12:20 +0200

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