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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change current keyboard layout via a .bat file [duplicate]
I got a windows 10 with 2 keyboard layout. I would like to switch progrmatically the current used keyboard via a bat file. Does anyone know what command does it?
to make it clear, I do not want to ...
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Using Capslock in Hotkey combon without capslock effect in Ubuntu
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I want to use Shift+Capslock as a hotkey for switching keyboards without the capslock effect, but I want capslock to work normally if used alone. I am using Ubuntu
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I switch a lot ...
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Automatically choose keyboard layout depending on plugged in devices
I have a QWERTY laptop and an AZERTY USB keyboard.
Somehow I manage to automatically match the layout to the keyboard, meaning I can touch type QWERTY on the laptop and AZERTY when the external ...
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How to manually remap keyboard mapping on different keyboard?
I have an external keyboard connected by USB on my laptop. I would like to remap the keycodes of the external keyboard without changing the keycodes of the laptop keyboard.
To be more specific, I ...
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what to do if keyboard doesn't have a straight fn key lock?
I have an external keyboard for my laptop. fn key used to work perfectly fine but I think I pressed a combination that enabled fn key lock. keyboard doesn't have a button for the key lock. the thing I ...
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Windows 10 no language icon on the taskbar
I've been trying to fix a keyboard switch delay problem and changed something in my registry (at that moment I had Russian and Japanese layouts), it got solved but instead I got a duplicate language ...
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Remove languages from language bar not listed in settings (Windows 10)
In my Windows 10 installation, the little language switcher in the task bar is cluttered with keyboard layouts / locale settings I never use:
So I go to language settings to try and remove them -- ...
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How to force gsettings change layout to work in Mint
Linux Mint 19.2 Tina, Cinnamon
I have a problem when I'm switching layout with Alt + Shift in some applications.
Using alt+shift not only changes the language, but also loses focus from the app text ...
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Removing ghost keyboard layout
On my computer I see an Irish keyboard layout in the language bar.
I don't know any Irish and English (USA) is my default langage with QWERTY being its only keyboard layout.
How do I permanently ...
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Calling GetKeyboardLayout before making a request to change keyboard layout doesn't work
I'm trying to conditionally set a keyboard layout on all opened windows in the following way:
Calling getKeyboardLayout, and determining what's the current language (English or Russian).
Calling ...
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How can you compose asiatic signs on a Typematrix 2030?
The Typematrix 2030 comes with integrated layout switches. The mode 106 when turned on, enable several composing keys. According to the guide:
"shuffle" key becomes scan code 123/0x7B (Alt 4)
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Language Packs and Keyboard Layouts
I am multilingual, using azerty and trying to learn korean meaning other alphabet. But it seems impossible to select hangul (korean alphabet) and stay in AZERTY layout or to simply select hangul ...
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Windows 10 Custom Keyboard Layout Abbreviation
I made a custom keyboard layout using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4 and successfully installed it. However I do not know how to change the abbreviation that shows in the language bar on the ...
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Passing the output of GetKeyboardLayout into LoadKeyboardLayout doesn't work
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Why passing the output of GetKeyboardLayout (after formatting it to hex) into LoadKeyboardLayout doesn't work?
The docs for GetKeyboardLayout say (bolded by me):
GetKeyboardLayout
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Windows 10 adds keyborad on startup which I do not wish to use
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I'm using Windows 10 English version. Usually I'm using Polish or English.
I've configured:
Polish language with keyboard layout "Polish (programmers)"
English language with keyboard ...
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'A' key broken, can I use another one in its place?
My laptop keyboard for letter A not working any longer.
How I could assign some shortcut like Ctrl+w to be a?
Or switch places with key ` to be letter a.
I'm using Windows 8.
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What is the model/layout of this unbranded keyboard?
I have this very handy wireless keyboard + TouchPad thingy. Unfortunately I am struggling finding several special chars on it, making terminal work very.... Slow. In my raspbian OS preferences, there ...
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Windows key + Enter to swap between keyboards
Prior to the big last windows update (1909) my keyboard seetings looked like this and I could easilly swap between options with Win + space
Now it appears like this and the keyboard shortcut changed ...
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Getting a resilient input language setting out of Windows 10
Recently I received a company laptop which was set up by our IT infrastructure team in Switzerland.
The default settings were English (United States) language and the Swiss French keyboard. Given ...
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How can I set default keyboard-layout for individual applications?
How can I set default keyboard-layout for individual applications?
Example:
For Chrome: Russian
For Visual Studio Code: English
I know Windows has an auto option for this, but often it doesn't work ...
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What is the keyboard form factor called for keyboards with arrow keys that double as home, end, page up and page down keys and has a numpad?
I'm looking for a keyboard with specific form factor/layout but I just don't know what it's called making it hard for me to search it on the internet.
Here's what it looks like.
Primary ...
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Typing brackets on windows keyboard with macOS [duplicate]
I am using a Ducky One 2 external keyboard (german layout) connected via USB to a MacBook Pro. I noticed the braces are not working as expected. For example the standard key combination for curly ...
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windows 10 logon screen keyboard layout reverts to OS default after lock/reboot
I need to change logon screen default keyboard layout to en in Windows 10. Os default is ru. I tried to apply the settings in the old way:
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload]
"1"="00000409"
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Microsoft Word (Office 365, Windows Stand-alone edition) automatically changes font when I switch keyboard layouts. How do I disable this?
I am a PhD student working on my dissertation in an historically-oriented discipline, which requires me to frequently type in a variety of languages, including Latin and Greek. I am frustrated that ...
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Having a keyboard language not appear when switching using keyboard shortcut
I'm using Windows 10 and have two languages (English, Hebrew) which I use all the time, so I'm using the Alt+Shift keyboard shortcut to switch between one and the other.
I lately started studying ...
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How to log in to Windows when the L key isn't working?
I just rebooted my Windows 10 PC and can't log in. I am trying to type in my password but it contains the letter L and when I press the L key nothing appears.
My keyboard was working fine but I ...
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Windows 10 cmd QWERTZ instead of QWERTY keyboard issue
I can't figure what is wrong - i have issue with keyboard layout in command line window. System is Windows 10 US with Polish regional and Polish programmer keyboard. There is no other regions, ...
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Reattach laptop keyboard button
See this picture, one of these little plastics broken.
I can't attach my button back to my laptop
Please help me what can I do .
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setxkbmap: changed layout can't revert back: can't use the second language
I have two languages installed: English and Russian. I have a keybind that allows me to switch between the two using Alt + Shift combination. When I run
setxkbmap -query
it used to output something ...
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My system isn't reading .XCompose file
So I've been told that IBus input method now work with .XCompose files and that I don't need to modify the GTK_IM_MODULE and QT_IM_MODULE to xim anymore, but without setting it to xim my GTK doesn't ...
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Mac OS, Karabiner - Rebind a key to backtick on Hungarian keyboard
I just received a MacBook with a Hungarian keyboard layout from my workplace to work on. Hungarian keyboards don't have a specific buttons for backtick, they instead start the numbers on 0, so I ...
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How do I find my laptop keyboard's correct scan codes
Hello guys I'm facing a problem that two of my keyboard key is not working i.e.(LShift and RShift) so I want to replace one of them with other key i.e.(RCtrl).While I was trying to re-map these keys ...
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How to debug a laptop keyboard hardware issue?
How can I debug a laptop keyboard hardware issue? Basically, how can I figure out what could be or what exactly is broken?
As example, I'm having an issue and would like to solve it, perhaps. What I ...
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keyboard shortcut to change command and option keys on mac
I have a German MacBook, though for programming I largely use an external QWERTY-keyboard with the standard Windows keys. To not confuse my muscle memory I would like to have the command and option ...
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Changing Undo… Shortcut in System Preferences
I am aware that one can go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts, and easily change any menu bar shortcut, like Undo, for all applications. This used to work great for me! However this no ...
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How do I use Finnish keyboard layout on a 101-key keyboard
Finnish keyboard layouts bind <, > and | to the extra LSGT key that does not exist on a 101-key keyboard. One option is to use cut and paste for inserting these characters. What other options do ...
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Can't do any special characters with my left alt
Hello and thanks for stopping by.
I m using a french azerty keyboard layout on windows 10. Never had any problem.
Since this morning I can't manage to use my left alt to do special characters like ~#{...
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What do the Function keys after F12 do?
While looking at a keyboard remapping program, I saw that one can remap keys from F13 to F24 as well. What do those keys do?
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How to disable full keyboard of touch keyboard in Windows 10?
I want to build a kiosk application which allows users to enter some text via a touch screen.
The user should be able to enter text in many different languages, so I thought it would be handy to use ...
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What is the keyboard key “Next Group”?
From time to time when in Linux some program recognize a keyboard key (or a combination of keys) as "Next Group".
This annoyance usually shows up due to an error in the keyboard layout configuration ...
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Force remote keyboard layout on Citrix Receiver
I use Citrix Receiver to connect to remote applications from a Windows machine. The Windows machine uses a custom keyboard layout (derived from a non-English layout) which is not available on the ...
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Your xorg.conf does not contain any XkbLayoout options Error in puppyLinux
I don't know what I did wrong, was it a wrong package or something else. Now I can't change the keyboard layout. Is there a way to reset the setting of xkb to fix this problem?
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How to delete standard Persian keyboard layout on windows 10?
There are two layouts installed for Persian on my laptop.
I want to uninstall the standard (FAS) layout. But there's only one layout shown in Region & Language
I've also tried to delete ...
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How to type French-specific characters «»° on a standard US keyboard on Windows using French-Canada layout
Having a Us keyboard on Windows using French-Canada layout, I can do a lot of the specific symbol/character and all of them are clearly explain in this post.
My question is only for the those ...
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ç (cedilla) key as Enter
In a Spanish keyboard is there a way to use the ç key as enter while still having Alt+ç as } and Enter as Enter? I'm using Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon.
As it says here I've used xev to get the key code ...
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Make input language equal to the keyboard layout
I have two language inputs and two corresponding keyboard layouts.
The language I can change with Alt+Shift, in win 7. The layout I can change with Ctrl+Shift
For some reason (randomly to my view) ...
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Is there a difference between a letter and a letter with combining marks?
I found the International English layout on XKB hard to use, so I wrote my own with all the French accents as combining diacritic marks on AltGr.
So is there a difference between combined letters, ...
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Mac keyboard: different layout, same default shortcuts
I recently bought a new keyboard and, as I live in Brazil, got a ABNT2 keyboard (this one has a ç and accents on different places, see here)
The problem is: as a Mac user for some long time, I got ...
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Will Windows 10 detect automatically if I physically change the keyboard (the physical object, not the layout) from english to french? [closed]
Will Windows 10 detect automatically if I physically change the keyboard (the physical object, not the layout) from english to french and adjust the layout accordingly?
I am thinking about pranking ...
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How can I swap 2 keys for a specific language/KB layout on Windows 10?
I'd like to swap the 'W' and ']' keys, which are 'ჯ' and 'ჟ' on the desired keyboard layout, so that the W key outputs the latter character and the ] key the former, and only when said keyboard is in ...
