Wrong Keyboard Layout

[skymera]

Hi

I've selected United Kingdom and Dell keyboard from the keyboard options yet it's still not the right layout. or not workign right.

All the keys are jumbled up, any idea how to fix?

[Qrikko]

$> gnome-keyboard-properties

should give you the interface to set up your keyboard

check if it is correct when you do, I for example had to use Finnish keyboard (I am Swedish) for a long while before it was "correct" so easiest I think is to use that and find something that work better

Hope it can help you.

[skymera]

I used that, United Kingdom is selected which is correct but all symbols are mixed around.

[skymera]

Reconfigured Xorg and selected GB, selected UK as my layout and still not right

[Troll_the_Great]

What do you mean "Don't feed the trolls!" Do you have something against trolls?Are you a troll hater?

[rockerphil]

i'm a bit more command line oriented, so this is what i'd do. in terminal run this:


sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

it'll have an option to select your keyboard layout, but it should auto-detect it. hope it helps

[skymera]

What do you mean "Don't feed the trolls!" Do you have something against trolls?Are you a troll hater?

I was called a troll for saying i liked Dream Linux.

[Troll_the_Great]

Why?What is dream linux?By the way, my nickname comes form the Norse mythology, I'm not an internet troll.

[skymera]

Ok Dream Linux is just another distro based on Debian.

Anyone know about the keyboard solution?

[markbuntu]

You can get keytouch and keytouch editor and make your own custom keyboard configuration.

A lot of those manufacturer keyboard things are wrong or for only one patricular keyboard which is most likely not yours. The manufacturers change keyboards and layouts all the time, even within the same model and don't really tell anyone.