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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Hold Alt to change keyboard layout in Windows temporarily
I use OSX most of the day, but recently built a new desktop PC and started using Windows 10 as well. On my Mac, when I hold the Alt key, the keyboard uses the English keyboard layout, but only as long ...
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How to create phonetic input method with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator?
I am trying to create a phonetic keyboard layout for Bangla
But the problem is, I can't assign a combination of keystrokes to input a single unicode character
For example:
I can assign key "M" to ...
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Remove extra language configuration
I regularly switch between US english and danish keyboard layouts using Alt+Shift.
On Windows 7 I simply had an english and a danish configuration and everything worked.
On Windows 10 the english ...
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Custom keyboard layout AltGr binds don't work in certain programs
I made a custom keyboard layout to make a game easier to play by re-mapping the numeric keys to AltGr+Q,W,E,etc., but I've now discovered that while that works properly while typing in any program, ...
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Change Z and Y on an English keyboard on Win 10 w/o buying software
Hez guzs... or I mean, hey guys! Ugh!
All I want is to have an English keyboard with Z and Y swapped. Why is it so hard to do? I do not want to buy a software just to have this little tweak going on....
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xkb - Why i get ŭ instead of ù on linux
I am Italian and I use an English keyboard that has less keys so there are combination with AltGr and the letter like AltGr+i to get ì.
So to improve the layout I made a few changes to have the most ...
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Permanently set keyboard layout in X11
I need a psychiatrist for my PC.
It is convinced it is an iMac (sort of).
Seriously: I have a problem which popped up apparently from nowhere, most likely due to some upgrade with "side effects", ...
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Keyboard profile confused between user profiles
There are several user profiles on my computer. All profiles use English and Czech languages. All users use US QWERTY keyboard for English. Now the interesting part comes:
I use Czech QWERTY keyboard ...
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Adding a keyboard layout for 50 domain users
There are around 50 domain users who need a new keyboard layout added to their Windows desktops.
Is there a way to do that without going to each computer?
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Don't switch keyboard layout if fast typing
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Keyboard layout sometimes not switch for me, if I print my texts fast. It would be nice, if my keyboard layout switched each time, when I press Alt+Shift. I will approach any built-in ...
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Is there a way to change the characters assigned to keyboard keys?
So I spilled coffee on my macbook keyboard and now the "r" key, and only the "r" key, doesn't work. As a workaround, I'm hoping to assign the r character to one of the number keys. Is this possible?
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How to fix a keyboard layout on each Windows 10 computer?
I use Windows 10 with the same Microsoft account on 3 different computers, each one with a different physical keyboard layout: ITA, UK, DE.
In "Control panel - Clock and International settings - ...
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Set up OS X keyboard to function like OS X within Windows
I'm not often in Windows, but when I am, I would like the keyboard to emulate the basic functions within OS X. For example:
Option key combinations set special characters
Option + arrow keys does ...
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Make special characters available on US keyboard an Wayland
I have a US keyboard and layout but sometimes I need german special keys (äÄöÖüÜß).
Of course I could switch keyboard layouts when I need it but I used to abuse
that uttery useless caps lock key to ...
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How to make the current keyboard layout more obvious in Windows 10?
I speak both French and English, and I very often switch from one keyboard (French Canadian) to another (English US). When I write French emails, the French keyboard becomes necessary for accents (e.g....
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Different default keyboard layouts for different applications
I know that it is possible in Windows 10 to switch between keyboard language layouts only for the active application but my question would be about how to make these choices to be default.
I mean, ...
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Make up for keyboard layout differences between macOS and Windows when using RDP
I'm using Microsoft's official Remote Desktop client for macOS to connect to a machine that runs Windows 10. On both my Mac and this Windows machine, I use a physically American QWERTY keyboard with ...
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What is the character for the SHIFT + 1 key combination on a US keyboard layout?
I recently setup a new password for a Gmail account unfortunately I no longer know the password and the account recovery option is unable to verify my account.
I have a good idea of the password I ...
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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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Can't type closing angle bracket in Kali Linux
After searching the web for two hours, fooling with keyboard settings and restarting my computer I have not been able to find a solution. I noticed the problem while trying to program in nano when I ...
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Japanese input with AZERTY on Windows 7
I'm French, I've a French keyboard.
I look on the web many things, I found a tool I downloaded, to write japanese on computer. I have Windows 7. When I use it, if I click on the "a" my keyboard, it ...
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how to re-map a keyboard key/ [duplicate]
the shift key in my keyboard has stopped working.(mechanical problem)
so, is there a way so that I can make windows think like (caps-button) is new shift button.
I'll buy a new keyboard ASAP but I ...
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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 - remap a solid key
is it possible for AHK to remap a key on the keyboard to another one? I mean not the character that they key prints, but the actual key, e.g. I have an international keyboard, it has an aditional key ...
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Make a shift key behave like an arrow key
I have a Windows 10 laptop with a keyboard designed by idiots. They tried to cram the arrow keys where they don't belong, with the result that the up arrow key is between the right shift key and the / ...
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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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Windows 10 showing more keyboards than configured
I know that keyboards doesn't work in any version of windows, but in win10 they fail in whole new level. I skip small problems like exactly configuring localization during setup, which is then not ...
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How to change keyboard layout in i3?
I am using 'i3` window manager on Fedora 25.
I've already uninstalled GNOME Desktop. I want to change keyboard layout and set it to languages other than English, and desirably also to set it as Alt+...
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United Kingdom keyboard (language) is added automatically
I've set keyboard languages: ENGLISH-US (not United Kingdom!) and ქარ (my local language).
Sometimes, I see that "ENGLISH (UNITED KINGDOM) [now "United States-International"] keyboard ...
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windows 10 english (united states) keyboard layout in popup but not in settings
I have configured two languages: English (UK) and Ukrainian.
Then at some moment (no idea when) the 3rd language - English (US) - appeared in the popup and so I can switch to it by Ctrl+Shift
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OSX - Automatically change input source for different keyboards
When pluggning an external keyboard on OSX, a wizard pops up to help select the keyboard layout. That layout is then somehow saved and reused automatically when you plug the external keyboard at a ...
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Cinnamon keyboard layout defaults to wrong layout
I am running latest arch linux with Cinnamon as DE and upon boot the keyboard layout defaults to US. I want it to default to CZ. The system default keyboard is CZ - localectl outputs:
System Locale: ...
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Has the '5' key on the numeric keypad ever had an alternate function in hardware?
Every modern keyboard that has a numeric keypad, at least that I can think of, has alternate functions printed on the keypad numbers, i.e.:
0 is Insert
. is Delete
7 9 3 1 are Home, Page Up, Page ...
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Umlaut (ä, ö, ü) on English (US) layout
The internet tells me, that I need to use the unicode-code to get those letters, but that can't seriously be the proper way to do it right? There must exist an easier solution (without 3rd party ...
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What are the options like to let users see / type Russian text under Windows 7 Professional?
I'm working on a computer to give away. The best of all possible outcomes would be complete translation of everything in the UI. The real outcome I'd like to achieve is besides displaying Cyrillic ...
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How to swap Fn and Ctrl keys while connecting external keyboard to laptop
I am using Dell Latitude 3470 laptop which has Ctrl key on the left most corner and Fn key next to Ctrl key (CtrlFn) .
But I am using Belkin K100 keyboard which has Fn key on the left most corner and ...
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How do I change the keyboard layout for the Microsoft IME (Japanese)?
I have an English Windows install and a Japanese keyboard. I want to type Japanese. I have the Microsoft IME set up and working, but the keyboard layout is wrong. For example, the mode key doesn't ...
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Windows 10 language bar hot keys are reseted to (none) after locking
I have 3 different keyboard layouts set up on my laptop and use Ctrl+Shift+[1-3] key combination to switch between them.
Like that:
However, after locking and unlocking Windows (with a password), ...
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Windows 7 keyboard stuck on French
At first this may seem like a duplicate question, however; I can assure you it is not, and I have searched extensively for the answer to no avail.
I was working away in PowerPoint, when suddenly the ...
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Windows 7/10 japanese keyboard language (no IME for hiragana)
I have a Swiss-French physical keyboard but I write in Swiss-French, English (International layout) and I would like to write in Japanese too. The thing is that when I set the Japanese layout I can ...
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How do I prevent source engine based games from adding the English US keyboard layout?
I'm on Win10 and I use the german keyboard layout. Whenever I start a source engine based game, "DEU" pops up in the task bar to tell me I currently use the german layout and can now switch to ENG US ...
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Keyboard shortcuts keep getting reset on startup (Win 10)
I've been trying to google a solution for while now to no avail.
I am using multiple keyboard layouts for multiple languages. I have set up shortcuts (Alt + Shift + #) for 8 such layouts. However, ...
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Where to put custom keyboard layouts in X.Org
I work in a technical, multilingual field, so I have created a number of custom X.Org keyboard layouts that allow me to easily type the special symbols and foreign letters I commonly use.
Up until ...
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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 10AU: Change to specific keyboard layout, not toggle
I would like to know a way to unilaterally force a specific keyboard layout, not toggle between the installed ones.
This answer seems like the solution, but it does not work on my system (and not, I ...
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Dual-role keys on linux
I want to use the Shift key as a dual-role key, for instance with the following two functions:
normal Shift, e.g. left Shift + T results in capital 'T'
as a \ key, i.e. if pressed and released ...
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`us altgr-intl` layout on Windows 10
Is there a US international keyboard layout variant for Windows 10 that behaves like altgr-intl on Linux? That is, if I press ' it appears on-screen immediately (no deadkey), and if I want to type E I ...
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Why is there a Swedish English keyboard Windows 10? [duplicate]
I have a Swedish Windows 10 computer and I made it to have 3 keyboards: Swedish, American English and French. But in the keyboard list, there is a fourth language, Swedish English, as you can see in ...
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Switching between windows of Same Applications ONLY for Spanish Layout (El Capitan OS X)
I open Word Office 2016 for MAC
Create Blank Document (Document1.docx) Add Text "Test One"
Create another Blank Document (Document2.docx) Add Text "Test Two"
Now I want change between Document1.docx ...
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How custom my keyboard layout?
I use the US International Layout on my keyboard.
I'm very satisfied without for one point.
By defaut, the apostroph touch use this character ´ instead of '.
I need to push alt+´ for obtain '. I want ...
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