Questions tagged [keyboard-layout]

Questions about re-arranging your keyboard layout (ex switching to Dvorak or remapping your Caps Lock key).

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Map Fn Key as Ctrl on a Late 2007 MacBook 3,1 running latest Linux Mint

I have a Late 2007 MacBook 3,1 and on those computers the Fn key is at the leftmost position. It is extremely annoying when using shortcuts. I can't even get used to it because I work with other ...
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How to open Windows .sys files? Keyboard Drivers Configuration

I'm trying to configure my keyboard drivers files on a Windows Server 2008 (Virtualbox), in order to understand how it is made. Why? To solve this problem : How to enable Alt Gr or Alt keys on a ...
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How can I map my keyboard's macro keys?

I have 17 macro keys in my keyboard which I can't use because the manufacturer's software isn't compatible with modern operating systems, and only ever supported Windows to begin with. The keys of ...
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External USB keyboard layout doesn't match macOS input source language layout

I've recently purchased an external USB keyboard to use with my MacBook Pro 2016. However, when pressing some keys I have noticed they're not returning the expected character. Further analysis ...
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HyperX Elite Keyboard not working correctly on macOS High Sierra

I have HyperX Alloy Elite Keyboard to use with Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows 10, but I recently got MacBook Pro 2017 for Work and I'm unable to use this Keyboard with macOS. When I try to setup keyboard ...
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How do I change the actual X server keyboard layout keys?

I use Swedish(Dvorak) as keyboard layout on Ubuntu. I bought a new keyboard and with the current layout I miss the pipe key. I want to change one of my keys to produce a pipe instead of it's ...
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VNC Keyboard Mapping Mismatch

Background I am using a VNC Viewer to connect from my local client Windows 10 Home to a remote mac OS X El Capitan host. Unfortunately, on my remote desktop the key-to-character mappings are ...
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How to use both setxkbmap and xmodmap on Linux Debian i3?

I bought new laptop that doesn't have Home and End keys. I need both keys when I type code in Vim. I installed Debian with the i3WM desktop environment on my laptop. I remapped my keyboard using the ...
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How do I fix keyboard mapping problems in VirtualBox running Debian as a guest

I've installed a bare-bones Debian Sid under VirtualBox on a Windows 7 laptop. I've done this so I have a handy Linux development box when I'll be on the road next month. However I'm having trouble ...
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How to type square brackets in VirtualBox on a Mac

I am wondering how to type square brackets into VirtualBox (Guest OS is CentOS 6.3) on a Mac. I know it's AltShift5 on the Host OS, but it doesn't work in VirtualBox for some reason. I use be ...
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How to change keyboard layout for all users in CentOS 7 Mate?

I need to set russian as default language and English as secondary language for all users in my system (CentOS 7, Mate). I've tried to google it and found that localectl might help me, but it was ...
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Removing an unwanted language/keyboard input method

My work laptop for some reason came with the US English and Swedish keyboard input methods by default (I later added Czech since I needed it) Something causes it to keep switching to the Swedish ...
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Change keyboard layout for Vim's command mode to English after it defaults to using Swedish keyboard layout

I'm using GVim and it defaults to using a Swedish keyboard layout. Is there some way of changing that to an English one? I don't have access to setxkbmap on this system, for some odd reason. So I don'...
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Custom keyboard using double-key shortcuts

I'm using an English keyboard; however, I sometimes need to type in Ukrainian. Unfortunately, I don't know the Ukrainian keyboard layout, so I made myself a phonetic keyboard using Javascript (I just ...
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Setting Hyper and Super modifiers for certain keys with setxkbmap or xmodmap

Problem: I want to modify/redefine my keyboard layout (pc105 se) so that when I press certain keys with mod3 (super) and mod4 (hyper), a different character is returned than usual. E.g. Keycode 61 ...
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Cannot write character è

I have an English version of Windows 10 operating system with Hungarian keyboard. The general use of non-Hungarian Latin special characters (and I guess this is the same of all the Latin keyboards) is ...
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+ / - keys on non-US keyboards

Many shortcuts require to use the + or - keys. Example : zoom or dezoom with Chrome : CTRL + or -. some websites (such as this one) use + or - keys to do certain actions (I have a laptop with no ...
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Arch: How to set keyboard mapping for full disk encryption with dm-crypt and LUKS

I try to install arch linux with full disk encryption. After switching to my locale keyboard layout (de-latin1) I entered my password which contains several special characters. Unfortunatelly after ...
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UEFI shell mode with no colon key

I have a newly built PC with a UEFI-enabled motherboard and I'm having trouble getting my DVD drive to boot into UEFI mode so I opted to boot into UEFI Shell to manually start the DVD in UEFI mode. ...
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Shortcuts for language switching issue on Ubuntu 18.04 vs Windows

For a long time, I was a user of Windows 10, but recently installed a second OS - Ubuntu 18.04. For me, the best way to switch language is Ctrl+Shift, so I'd like to stay with it on both systems. ...
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Connecting to my computer via RD adds new keyboard layouts

My home PC, running Windows 10, has two keyboard layouts installed, as visible on this image: When I connect to this PC via Remote Desktop, I immediately get a few other layouts added automatically: ...
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How can I change a comma to period on a numerical keyboard on Windows 10?

How can I change a comma to a period on numerical keyboard on Windows 10 without changing the input language? When I used Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator the keyboard created wasn’t shown in ...
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Why does Windows 10 switch the Language, but not the Keyboard layout on Alt + Shift?

I am a German Windows 10 user and I use both English and German Keyboard Layouts - German for writing texts and English for programming (because German Umlauts and English Special Characters share the ...
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Windows hotkey to change keyboard layout

What is the hotkey to switch between keyboard layouts in windows, while in some application? I tried CTRL+shift and ALT+shift but it didn't work.
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Windows: Alt + 236 doesn't produce the infinity symbol: what's wrong?

I'd like to be able to type different math symbols using alt + number keyboard. However, I'm having some problems. For instance, they (1,2) suggest that the infinity symbol should be produced by alt+...
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How to start app/program with defined input language

I have a german keyboard layout and german as input language. However, some programs do not accept a comma as decimal for number input. A dot is required for input. For a way better workflow, I want ...
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Disable Number Pad in Windows 7

This question refers to a desktop computer. Is there a way to disable the number pad under windows 7? Alternatively, is there a way to disable certain keys? Thanks.
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How to use shortcuts that include modifier that is needed to get a character within the shortcut?

Let's say we have some shortcut Crtl + Shift + /. On some keyboard layouts / might be the primary character of a button, but on mine you need to use Shift + 7 in order to write /. Is there a way to ...
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Using both Ctrl+Alt to replace AltGr 3rd level function on xorg

On Windows, Ctrl-Alt is mapped to Alt Gr, but not so on Linux. Using Alt Gr for 3rd level keys is wrist-killer! I'm unable to find a workaround that doesn't remove other functionality I use (the few ...
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Is it possible to type the pound sign (£) on an (American) Kinesis Advantage keyboard?

I'm using the United States International keyboard layout, so pressing ' and then o should make an accented ó in Microsoft Windows 10. The problem is that I'm using a Kinesis Advantage keyboard and ...
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Different language for user interface and keyboard on Windows 10

On Windows 7 I used to have the display language in English and my native language as keyboard layout. This was very easy to configure, as user interface language and keyboard layout were completely ...
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Chrome "Jump to Tab" shortcut broken with French Keyboard (OSX)

I've updated my OSX to Mojave yesterday, and Chrome's jump to tab function stopped working. As I have a french keyboard, my default numbers are & é " ' ( § è ! ç à, and when hitting shift, ...
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Setting different keys for switching between different keyboard layouts, how can be implemented in Windows?

Using the tool AutoHotKey I could set Caps Lock key for switching keyboard layouts (here). But I still want to set Caps Lock for Layout_1 and Shift+Caps Lock or backtick ` for Layout_2. Is it ...
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How do I get DVORAK keyboard layout on Windows?

There is no such layout by default and I have tried getting the one available here (http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/) and it doesn't work with Windows. So is there any way I get the DVORAK layout ...
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Is it possible to change the keyboard layout when no operating system is installed on the computer?

I installed ubuntu on my pc. I think there was a bug and it opened GNU GRUB command line. I can't write commands there because I am a dvorak user. If this happens to me in future again, I want to ...
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Really fix Win10 to prevent automatically adding keyboard layout [duplicate]

Yes, I see that How to prevent Windows 10 from automatically adding keyboard layouts (i.e. US keyboard), it is not the fix but just a workaround. That question has been closed for answer so I've to ...
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Is it possible to assign a key of a keyboard to act as enter?

I many times work with CAD. With that CAD, my right hand is almost always with mouse. If I work with drawing, there will be many times I have to press the enter key to accept or to finish one command ...
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How do I remap the keys on my keyboard? [duplicate]

I broke my laptop and had to buy a new one with a new keyboard that I am struggling to get familiar with, especially with the keys like home, page-up, page-down and end, which aren't standardized at ...
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Why does Mac UK keyboard have a § key? [closed]

I got my hands on Mac with UK keyboard. I noticed that backtick key ` which is, in Mac US keyboard, present with the number row is replaced by a § key. The UK keyboard is on the top and the US ...
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How can I disable incorrect shift key usage for better typing? [closed]

In the pursuit of more efficient typing, I am trying to be more consistent about shift key I am using. Sometimes, I type a letter while shifting on the same side of the keyboard, while I would prefer ...
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Remapping of keys in Mac OS X

My MBP comes with a Turkish keyboard but I'm using US layout. However, the key just under ESC gives § instead of ` (back-quote) which I frequently use. I need to remap this key but I couldn't find ...
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AltGr randomly stops working on windows 10

I am using a number of different keyboard layouts, depending on which language/keyboard I am woring with. Some of these rely on the AltGr key for producing certain symbols like @ (e.g. the Swedish ...
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What unicode characters in the control group other than tab work with MSKLC?

MSKLC = Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. Are there control characters for Home, End, delete, etc. and do they work with MSKLC 1.4?
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Why does Caps Lock not change symbol keys?

I've never thought about this before, but why have a Caps Lock instead of a Shift Lock? Is there historical context for this? Though my muscle memory knows to expect different functionality from ...
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AutoHotkey (EU keyboard): how to remap LCtrl while keeping AltGr

I searched past questions, but I haven't found a solution to switch LAlt with LCtrl (or CapsLock with LCtrl) while preserving completely AltGr, that corresponds to Ctrl+Alt (or maybe LCtrl+RAlt?). ...
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AltGr not working properly on VMware

I'm working on Fedora 18 on a VMware VM. Until yesterday my keyboard was OK, but I was trying with my boss to get the extended ASCII code activating the composed keys with so many ways (and all of ...
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How to disable AltGr in Win7?

I am supporting a user that can't type and consequently often hits AltGr (on the right side of space-key). He has enough power to decide he wants to disable that key (instead of learning to type). and ...
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Remapping keys when connecting Windows keyboard to Macbook pro

I recently connected my Windows keyboard to my MacBook Pro. The keyboard has a Croatian layout and I have picked "Croatian - PC" as the input language in keyboard settings. Everything mostly works ...
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How to disable a set of input methods (languages) on win 10

I use different app in different language (English and Hungarian) So I enabled English and Hungarian input languages, and keyboard-layouts. Alt + Shift and Ctrl + Shift can change between these input ...
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Separate numpad with keyboard and left-hand-dvorak layout together?

This is a hardware config question. I have a keyboard with no numpad. The keyboard layout I use is left-hand-dvorak (for one-hander). I recently got a separate usb numpad. The problem is that because ...

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