• Registered: 2010-09-16
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Topic: American Keymap

I have a US keyboard with a backslash and vertical bar key above my enter key and below my backspace. At install, I select the American English keymap but I looked it up and it actually sets it to the UK keymap where it has a key to the left of the Z instead of the one I have below the backspace. I've tried resetting it with the dpkg reconfigure or whatever it was but it never works. I want to be able to use this key because I need to to use "... | grep ..."

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Re: American Keymap

When you say

I've tried resetting it with the dpkg reconfigure or whatever it was

are you referring to this 

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

and if so did you also read this

Fix: Run the following command, select your desired keyboard layout and restart for the selection to take

which can be found here ??  wink


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Re: American Keymap

This always annoyed me, but on a new installation, the default keymap is UK. You can click on the little keyboard switcher in the bottom right corner to change it to US or GB, if you like.

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  • Registered: 2010-09-16
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Re: American Keymap

Yah you were right. I just never restarted it. Thanks guys