I have Linux (Backtrack5) running as guest operating system in IOS.
There seems to be some problems with certain keys, I can't type the # sign.. instead, it gives 2 (in superscript).
I have tried hex (%40) but it won't compile.
I have reinstalled it with another keyboard layouts but problem reproduces.
Is there a file where i can reconfigure certain keys?
I am afraid I may sound trivial, but maybe this is your case.It might be that the keymap your system loads by default does not match the one your physical keyboard actually has.
You can change the keyboard layout you're using with setxkbmap it Return typed in a console in your graphical environment (X11), be it under KDE, GNOME, or what you have. With that command you would use an Italian keyboard layout, it looks like the two-letter code for a Danish one is da.
If you're not working with a graphical environment you can set your keyboard layout with loadkeys it Return
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I installed Cinnamon Manjaro linux on my 2017 QWERTY Macbook Air. Kernel: 5.4.27-1-MANJARO.
I've tried changing my keyboard languages, but my compose key always produces the same behavior -- that of a US (intl) keyboard. I don't know why.
I've tried setting my compose key to different things, like LWin or RAlt, no luck.
Ideally, I want the same key behavior as that on Mac. My current keyboard layout is English (Macintosh). Everything works, except for all of the compose key combos / accents, which all seem to produce US(intl) dead key outputs.
Things I've tried:
changing my keyboard layouts, from GUI to setxkbmap.
changing my compose key
manually setting the value of Option "Xkblayout" "mac" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
Failing to understand how to manually force set the accent keys I want via xmodmap :(
Thanks for the help.
Solved: I realized that there was another keyboard which Xorg was somehow (I don't know how) set to, other than English (Macbook). I ran setxbmap -option which had the effect of "resetting" my keyboard to the layout I'd correctly chosen via the GUI.
I don't much understand how / why Xorg persisted in using another keyboard layout despite what I had entered in the GUI keyboard settings -- somehow it survived a reset through multiple computer restarts throughout these past days. But it works.
I would like to inquire if there is a program in Linux that we can use to assign new keyboard shortcut per application. For example, if I'm in FeatherPad I would like to assign Super+S to save. If I'm in terminal, I would like to use Super+V to paste.
Or a program that cab map/assign new shortcut and translate that to an existing shortcut. If in terminal I can paste with Shift+Insert then I would like to map Super+V to Shift+Insert
The closest analogy would be a program like Autohotkey in Microsoft Windows. How do I do this in Linux Desktop environment regardless it is Gnome2/Unity/XFCE etc. ?
There used to be a way to do this called "custom accelerators" or "editable accelerators". It used to be supported in GNOME 2 and XFCE (maybe in others). But since the move to gtk3, this functionality seems to have been removed in GTK-based desktop environments.
In KDE/Plasma, you can use System Settings -> Shortcuts -> Global Shortcuts and then the plus symbol to add specific shortcuts that only apply to certain applications, but unfortunately, not all applications support it.
In FeatherPad itself, there should be Options -> Preferences -> Shortcuts, but I've had no luck getting it to register any shortcut consisting of just Super and a key.
I'm unfamiliar with Autohotkey but it seems that AutoKey is sometimes mentioned as an alternative on Linux?
When using a virtual terminal (TTY) on Linux, there are certain keybindings that are redundant on modern keyboards. For example, Ctrl+J and Enter do the same thing (Linefeed).
I would like keys like Enter to retain their current mapping, freeing up stuff like Ctrl+J for something else.
On Raspbian Lite (basically, Debian), is it possible to map Ctrl+J to something different to Enter?
There are five man pages you should start with when learning about keymaps:
See keymaps(5) for defining custom keymap files.
See dumpkeys(1) to explore the state of the current keymap.
See showkey(1) to detect which keycodes your keyboard emits.
See loadkeys(1) to load a different keymap into the kernel.
See install-keymap(8) to persistently update the system keymap.
Note: This information relates to the virtual terminals that the kernel provides. Some things are different with X (see XKB).
My keyboard has two languages, English and other. But in xterm I can write only in other language, and I can't replace the language in any way (alt-lshift, the regular way, or in the gui). With shift key I can write upper case (with caps lock it doesn’t work).
The Cygwin guides on the internet referrals me to xkb layout files, that doesn't existing in my computer at all.
I open the xterm from the icon of Xwin.
Thank you.
Since this is an XTerm running in the Cygwin X server, the X server is doing all the keyboard input translation, independently from the keyboard translation Windows does for other programs (the X server reads the raw keyboard input from the device). So you have to use the X11 methods of changing keyboard layouts. Into your .xinitrc or .xprofile (I can't remember which one Cygwin uses) put the following command
setxkbmap us
To load the US keyboard layout. You can type it also from your xterm when you need it. Read the manpage of setxbmap for details.
Im runing Solaris 10 - but im having problems with the keyboard.
Instead of - i get /, and instead of y i get z, etc. I tried changing every option in the menu "Keyboard Behaviour". I also tried changing kmdconfig from xorg to xsun, but then the graphics goes all wild and ugly - although the keyboard works fine then. Also cant change resolution in xsun mode.
By the way, im runing Solaris from Vmware, but i doubt this has anything to do with this.
Leave the graphic environment to the console:
dtconfig -d
dtconfig -reset
Select the correct keyboard layout you use:
kbd -s
Load it:
loadkeys
Check the keys are working properly. If okay, enable the graphical environment again:
dtconfig -e
If that still works, make that choice persistent after a reboot by updating your eeprom. eg:
eeprom kbd-type=Spanish
This should be migrated to superuser.com
It seems that you are expecting a german keyboard layout but are getting a US layout - at least the differences you are seeing are differences between those layouts. I don't know where to change that in openSolaris, but maybe it helps you find the correct place to look. Whatever desktop environment that you are using, it should have a tool to change the keyboard layout, probably somewhere with the other internationalization settings.