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How do I change keyboard in Xfce desktop?

History/what I did:

Chosen keyboard (in setup during installation process) disappeared/changed
into a keyboard without keys: " @ $ € "

Maybe it happened  because I chose
" i686 pae " (or similar name)
under "advanced" (option 2) in start-up of the machine. Of course I can try
reboot in default
But I want try this "i686 pae", & also to see if a keyboard list is
somewhere in Xfce or via a program in Synaptic or Terminal.
Because I do need sometimes to switch to a Greek keyboard. Sorry for my bad
English.
BR,
Gunnar

On Wed, 4 Aug 2021, 15:48 Thomas Hochstein, <thh@thh.name> wrote:

> Gunnar Gervin schrieb:
>
> > Subject: HOW ' s
>
> Please use a subject that describes your problem. "HOW's" ist not
> better than "(unknown)" or "/&%!"§%&/!"%/&§".
>
> > gone @ $ € (wrong keyboard)
>
> Please try do describe your problem so that it's easy to understand.
>
> Does your keyboard miss keys?
> Did you change your keyboard and connect a wrong one?
> I don't think so.
>
> > How it happened:
> > During Debian installation, I chose a linux version 4.19.0-17-686-pae
> from
> > a mirror.
>
> Your choice of Linux kernel should not have any significance for your
> keyboard or locale.
>
> > I lost (nb.UTF-8 or similar) setup (Norwegian bokmål) in
> > Macintosh-no-dead-keys.
>
> Please try do describe your problem so that it's easy to understand.
> (<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>)
>
> What did you "lose" where?
> What did you expect, and what did you get?
> What has changed?
>
> Do you miss the nb.UTF-8 locale? Try "dpkg-reconfigure locales" as
> root and select that locale.
>
> > I couldn't find a list of available keyboards in Gnome desktop, then
> > recalled I found it in Xfce once before (hopefully in Debian)
>
> It does not seem like a good idea to deinstall Gnome just because you
> might recall having found "keyboards" sowewhere else.
>
> > 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.
>
> It seems reasonable that you won't see changes without logging out and
> in again.
>
> > I can learn to use the Gnome desktop, but I really need to change this
> > keyboard.
>
> Than, perhaps, you should start with learning how to change the
> "keyboard"?
>
> -thh
>
>

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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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