National keyboard layouts, relocating control keys, etc., generally at the operating system level. See /keyboard-shortcuts for key mappings in applications.
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Keyboard layout bug in login window after screen lock
I use Fedora 16 now, but this issue already was in Fedora 15 before I upgraded it.
When I lock my screen and then want to unlock it, I have a default English layout (I am from Russia and also have ...
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How do you configure numpad keys using XKB?
I haven't figured out how you configure XKB to use the numpad yet. I found the following in the "us" file.
partial alphanumeric_keys modifier_keys
xkb_symbols "basic" {
name[Group1]= "USA";
...
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How to put some keyboard layout aside from layout switching ring?
An exact thing I need is to
switch between Russian and English layout with my favorite shortcut (namely Shift-CapsLock)
switch to Belarusian layout with another shortcut (say, Ctrl-RightShift, but ...
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Uppercase input turns on periodically
I have some problem. Every 3-5 second everything, that I input from keyboard became UPPERCASE only. I also have two keyboard layouts: us and ua. And when uppercase happens - I can't switch my keyboard ...
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How to re-enable the caps lock key?
I am currently setting up my default keyboard layout like this:
setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvorak -option ctrl:nocaps,[...]
It disables the caps lock key and makes it an additional ctrl key, ...
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Change behaviour of numpad to dpad in GNOME 3.2
I'm a long-time Windows user who uses the numeric keypad with the numlock off for navigating text, highlighting it, etc. Shift + Home (7 on the numpad) selects all text till the beginning of the line. ...
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UTF8 math symbols & keyboard layout / input
I'd like to use UTF8 math symbols, when typing one list, another list.
I've found sth called ComposeKey. Unfortunately it's not covering omega, theta, rightarrow etc.
I am using KDE, I've tried ...
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Disable action keys
I'm running openSUSE on HP Pavilion dm4.
I have a bunch of action keys (volume up/down, brightness, wifi etc.) on my function keys. For using standard Fx keys I have to hold Fn key.
The problem is ...
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cryptsetup luksOpen only accepts password via ssh
while installing my Gentoo system I encoutered a strange error.
One of my disk is encrypted, I have done all the installation via ssh, so did I enter the encryption passphrase via ssh.
Now I entered ...
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How to set keyboard layout used to enter password on an encrypted filesystem?
After my upgrade to Debian 6 (Squeeze), the keyboard layout used to enter the password of encrypted filesystem has been changed. How can I revert it back to previous one?
My understanding is that, ...
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How do I configure setfont and loadkeys properly?
I'm installing LFS and I'm struggling with this section. My locale is sv_SE.UTF-8 and I have a Swedish keyboard. So I suppose I should enable unicode and that the keymap is sv-latin1:
cat > ...
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Relationship of keyboard layout and xmodmap
I'm using Xubuntu. Before login I can choose a keyboard layout. I'm using xmodmap for remmaping some keys.
I'm interested in two things:
How the state of keyboard mapping changes when I turn the ...
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How to change the USB keyboard layout in an OpenBSD console?
I may be abusing the word console but I mean the mode without X i.e. pressing ^+Alt F1 and then log as other user where I want to use my chosen layout with USB keyboard.
X works, it configures the ...
