Questions tagged [keyboard-layout]
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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How to set second keyboard in Fedora (if there's no Settings-`Region and Languages` application in Startup Menu')? [on hold]
I just installed Lunux Fedora 29 and wanted to change (add) language on my keyboard.
The Fedora System Administrator's Guide
says there should be a Region and Language application from the Setting ...
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Mapping external keyboard PrintScreen
I'm running Pop!_OS and using an external CODE keyboard (88-keys) and I want to map PrintScreen and SHIFT+PrintScreen in my external keyboard to the actual PrintScreen key. The internal laptop ...
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xterm: Disable Left Alt from producing ø
I'm on latest debian testing with i3wm on two different laptops.
Linux mango 4.19.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.16-1
When I press LeftAlt + x I get "ø". And other special chars with other keys.
I ...
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Caps Lock behavior under Sway / Wayland
Under X, I can make Caps Lock behave as Esc when pressed briefly, but as Ctrl when held down with:
setxkbmap -option 'caps:ctrl_modifier'
xcape -e 'Caps_Lock=Escape' -t 100
How can I replicate this ...
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Keyboard language switch causes bug with word capitalizing
I've used different versions of Ubuntu, starting from 12 to 18.
All ubuntu versions have the same bug with capitalizing word after switching keyboard layout, except 16.04 (I don't remember, maybe ...
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Buscador OS - Changing the keyboard layout to german
I'm trying to change the keyboard layout to german (de_DE.UTF-8). It doesn't work, whatever I'm doing.
This is what I already tried:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-...
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Permanently change xkb keybindings?
I have a custom keyboard layout located in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us. Every time an update happens, this file is updated to the standard keyboard layout. Is there either a way to change this ...
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2-key Keybindings (e.g. alt-shift) override 3-key bindings (e.g. alt-shift-1). How can I fix that?
If I have a 3key binding (e.g. alt-shift-1) and 2-key binding (e.g. alt-shift), when I press alt-shift-1 it just does the alt-shift binding instead (and writes shift+1). Shorter bindings override ...
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Set custom keyboard shortcuts for keyboard layout change by CLI in Cinnamon (Linux Mint)
Setting for set custom keyboard shortcuts via CLI does not fully work on Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.1. Here is what I've done to investigate:
1) Added custom via GUI, assign Ctrl+Alt+z, it shows as Ctrl+...
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Use same compose keys of OSX on Arch
I use a apple keyboard and really like the way OSX handle insertion of special characters, for example:
<Multi_key> + c then c gives ç
<Multi_key> + e then e gives é
<Multi_key> + ...
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How to Remap Chewing (Chinese Input Method)
I'm using Bodhi Linux and yesterday made a huge mistake upon updating the system and remapped my keyboard completely wrong. I was able to get the English keyboard remapped, but the Chinese is still ...
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How to Control the Scroll Lock LED or Compose LED using another key?
I have a Sun keyboard (Type 5, I think) with several additional keys on the left hand side of the keyboard. I use one of these keys, "Again" as a modifier to toggle the function of the number keys on ...
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Linux Mint shortcut key fails to switch back to previous keyboard layout
In Linux Mint with Cinnamon. two keyboard layouts are used; en-CA (useful for accents in french) and en-US.
I set up the shortcut to switch layouts to super+space. I can switch from en-US to en-CA, ...
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How to install and switch between languages (English/Japanes) in Debian
I'd like to be able to install and switch to a Japanese keyboard and back to English. Notice that this is also a question of usability. I'd like to be able to type Japanese directly, in any program, ...
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Opensuse Leap 15 vmware not AltGr Keys
I'm trying to get the Keyboard Layout right on a opensuse 15 leap. I've been in System Settings -> Input devices -> Keyboard -> Layouts and tried to configure a layout there... didn't work. ...
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How to setup Meta key when using VNC from Mac to Centos 6?
I'm running emacs 26.1 on a Centos 6.9 machine displaying via TightVNC server to a client running on my Mac OS X 10.14.2. To make things tricky, I'm also using Dvorak keyboard layout.
When I run ...
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Manjaro openbox: Different keyboard layout for each window
I'm using manjaro openbox Illyria 18.0.2-2018520 and looking for an option for different language per application/window. I didn't see any option in keyboard setting. How can i set this?
similar ...
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configure non-modifier as a modifier key
This question is similar to:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/33751/making-any-key-into-a-modifier-key
I have a machine with a non-standard keyboard layout (lenovo x1 carbon) where the CapsLock key ...
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Can't switch to ruu layout variant in gnome
I'm running on Antergos with Gnome 3.30.2. Right now I have English and Russian keyboard layouts, they work fine.
$ dconf read /org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/sources
[('xkb', 'us'), ('xkb', 'ru')]
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Current language of keyboard layout isn`t displayed at Lock Screen, at KDE Plasma 5.12.7
I have a 3 keyboard layout and have a password that used the English language, but I don't have an indicator of keyboard layout at my lock screen. How can I add an indicator of the current keyboard ...
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how do i map the cmd key to ctrl on kubuntu 18.04?
I'm using an apple mac keyboard and I'm trying to map the "cmd" key to the "ctrl key but not having any luck can someone advise?
I've tried setting the keyboard model to apple macintosh but that has ...
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How to view the current keyboard layout on arch linux
I am not using any Desktop Environment (GNOME, KDE...)
I am using i3wm and I mapped the alt-shift key to toggle fr,ara keyboard layouts
I want to view (from terminal) the current layout to use it in ...
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Ctrl + Alt + A does not work in Emacs and other applications
I'm currently using Fedora 29 KDE Spin, I noticed that CTRL + ALT + A does not work in spacemacs, and the key combination does not seem to work anywhere. Some people advised me that it might be due to ...
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GTK and Qt apps seem to interpret XCompose differently
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04. By default, typing something like ^2 produces ², which I don't want: I want it to be ^2. I found out that to accomplish that, one has to set GTK_IM_MODULE=xim and QT_IM_MODULE=...
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Programmer's dvorak for ibus?
I'm currently using Fedora 29 KDE Spin and I'm using ibus for Korean input. The problem is that I cannot choose programmer's dvorak with ibus unlike in the keyboard setting.
I found out that ibus ...
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setxkbmap conflicting with xmodmap
So initially I had the following in my ~/.Xmodmap which mapped CapsLock+HJKL to left/down/up/right like in vim:
keycode 66 = Mode_switch
keysym h = h H Left
keysym j = j J Down
keysym k = k K Up
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Dvorak Programmer Layout with OpenBSD
I've recently installed OpenBSD. When installing the OS I selected the normal Dvorak layout as the Dvorak Programmer wasn't present on the list.
After the install I wanted to change the layout with ...
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What controls the mapping between Ctrl+Alt+F keys, TTYs and X sessions?
On my CentOS system, Ctrl+Alt+F1 shows the X Windows session known as :0, but on other systems Ctrl+Alt+F7 may do the same thing. What determines how Fn keys are mapped to X sessions and TTYs?
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How to configure keyboard layout to auto-switch when I switch to/from a particular application or a website?
Once again annoyed by having to switch keyboard layout as I've entered a password in a wrong one I've just realized I always write Russian in one app and on one website, in all the other apps and on ...
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Changing the keyboard layout/mapping on both the console (tty) and X in an X/console agnostic way?
I've been able to change the keyboard layout/mapping when the X Window System is running using ~/.Xmodmap (and I suppose you could also do it through the X protocol directly, eg. using libxcb as a ...
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Does Linux Mint have Windows-like dead keys?
I'm from the Netherlands, using Windows' Dutch US-International keyboard layout, where a fair few characters use dead keys (éèëê, times five for every vowel). On Windows, typing an apostrophe with a ...
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How to add keys to keyboard layout in Xfce?
I'm using Linux Lite 3.8 with Xfce.
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Problem: need to type in question marks "?", but can't. How can I add this key to keyboard layout?
I bought a laptop in the USA that has a regular US-en ...
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Paliate key sending wrong keycodes
After a waterspill over my laptop's keyboard the left arrow and the up arrow send grabled keycodes which correspond to several other keys.
I can live without those keys since I can remap other keys ...
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Remap the alt key in Grub 2
I have a problem with my keyboard: the left Alt key is not working any more.
When I logged in into the Window manager, I can remap the key to caps lock key, and everything works fine.
I changed ...
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How to setup keyboard switching in Tigervnc via Remmina Remote Desktop
I am running VNC server on a headless Ubuntu box with tigervncserver. ~/.vnc/config is all commented and has the following examples:
# securitytypes=vncauth,tlsvnc
# desktop=sandbox
# geometry=...
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Setting Shift + Spacebar + SomeLetter as an alternative for arrow keys
Is there any way to customize your keyboard to set Shift+Spacebar+SomeLetter as an alternative for arrow keys? When editing text, I either use a mouse or arrow keys to take the cursor to a particular ...
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Invalid key bindings after upgrade to ubuntu 18.04 from 16.04
I need a shortcut Alt + 1 in Intellij IDEA but after Ubuntu upgrade it results into Alt + plus. However other numbers like Alt + 2 behave as expected. And hitting 1 indeed results into writing 1 in ...
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How can I configure xkb to switch layouts both ways?
If I run setxkbmap -layout us,us -variant altgr-intl,colemak -option grp:alt_space_toggle, I can switch from the AltGr-International layout to Colemak by pressing Alt+Space. But it doesn't work the ...
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Switch to another input method
I can't find anything clear of how linux is handling the keyboard. (system based configurations not gui)
My problem is : I installed ibus on a linux mint with several languages but it just doesn't ...
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Keyboard reports ctrl_l and alt_l keys are pressed in Xfce sometimes
I am using Fedora xfce desktop on my laptop, the HP elitebook 830 G5. Sometimes, when I pressing part of specific keys, .e.g - key, the system reports that both ctrl_l and alt_l keys are pressed as ...
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Keyboard layout changes on change of focus at KDE
I have a Debian 9.5 (stable) with KDE and i've binded three commands to three different global shortcuts with System Settings -> Shortuts
setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us
setxkbmap -model abnt2 -...
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Can't login to Alpine Linux due to a faulty keymap configuration
I have a fresh Alpine Linux 3.8.0 installed on a local disk, dual booted with Ubuntu 18.04.
While trying to solve some GUI localization issue, I've entered a wrong keymap in setup-keymap. Sadly, ...
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Linux mint bluetooth headphone connect resets keyboard map
So I have a ~/.config/autostart/keyboard.desktop file that tweaks my laptop keyboard layout on login. It does setxkbmap -option "ctrl:nocaps" amongst other things. This maps my caps lock key to ctrl. ...
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xmodmap: remapped Control_L not working for copying and pasting
After spending hours, I found that xmodmap can be used to remap / key to Left Control key. I used following command:
$ xmodmap -e "keycode 94 = Control_L NoSymbol Control_L"
Using xev, I find that ...
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Why Tab can't be modified with ISO_Level3_Shift
I am using a 40 key keyboard called daisy, I want to have a consistent layout of all my keyboards. The tab can't modified to other keys is kind a waste of resources.
The relevant part in .Xmodmap is:
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How to swap a modifier key with a character key on X?
I'm trying to swap my left Windows-key with the <>|-key. This worked very well on the vterm using a keymap file that does just that. However, I cannot get this to work on X (tried on KDE as well ...
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setxkbmap with a 3 key toggle [duplicate]
Can someone help me to set my keyboard layouts so I can toggle between English and Russian using Ctrl+Win+Backslash.
I'm trying something like:
setxkbmap -layout us,ru -option -option "grp:...
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Can't change keyboard layout inside vncserver
How to change keyboard layout inside (tiger) vncserver? I am running startxfce4 inside it. I can show country flag in the corner and switch layout by clicking on it, but I can't switch by keyboard ...
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Is there a system-wide way to prevent Num Lock?
My keyboard is configured such that Num Lock replaces certain alphabetical keys with numbers when Num Lock is on. There is also no Num Lock indicator light, which makes Num Lock cause confusion when ...
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How to get accented characters instead of quotes?
I'm using Gnome desktop environment on Debian 9.5, my laptop is Acer Aspire V5 series.
I usually cycle through three keyboard languages during the day: English, Italian and Spanish. The first two ...
