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Changing keyboard layout in Ubuntu 12.04 server command line interface
I'm new to Ubuntu. I use 12.04 Server in command line mode (no X installed) and I would like to change the keyboard layout... Thanks !
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Default keys “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0” to input “! @ # $ % ^ & * ( )”
Doing math homework on a full keyboard. Would like the top row to be the special characters without holding shift.
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Can't add more than four keyboard layouts
I can't add more than 4 keyboard layouts on my ubuntu. It just won't let me add more. And I in need of at least 4 more. Anyone else encountered this problem and can give me some advice?
Thanks in ...
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How to layout the filesystem for a small SSD and a big HDD?
Since I don't use my laptop's CD-drive I want to put a small (8 GB) SSD into the CD-drive slot (I'll use a caddy similar to this one). I want to use compressed btrfs on the SSD and put all the data on ...
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Editing /.config/dconf/user
I am having a problem with Gnome3 (actually, I have it set to fallback mode, or
Gnome 2). I have two displays and I need an X screen (I used
nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings to do this) for each ...
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How do I change my keyboard layout while using xmonad?
So I have an IBM Thinkpad X31, running natty and xmonad as the window manager. The keyboard is Italian. I wish to use an American English keyboard mapping, all the time. How do I do this?
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How to change keyboard layout?
I'm on ubuntu 12.04.
Recently I bought a cheap apple style bluetooth keyboard. It pairs OK. I paired it with the current 102 key still attached.
Anyway I noticed that the character mapping is ...
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Is there a way to store the current desktop layout?
What I want to be able to save the current positions of my applications, so when I'm going to open the same ones and run something they will rearrange as they were.
For example if I'm going to open a ...
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Window management shortcuts?
I've got a single massive monitor at home, and I've decided to mimic the Windows 7 window tiling shortcuts. I found a few guides online using wmctrl, and it's going well, save one thing: maximized ...
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How to download Ubuntu keyboard layout? [closed]
Is there any way to download keyboard layouts available in Ubuntu so I can use them on Windows?
I would like to be able to use the same layouts on both OS, I especially enjoy default Esperano layout ...
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How to import own self created windows keyboard layout to ubuntu?
Is it possible to import a own windows keyboard layout or i need to generate it new?
tanks :)
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How to share two keyboard on the same laptop, french iso layout and usa ansi layout keyboard with usb?
I recently buy a "noppoo choc mini" with this specific ANSI US-INTERNATIONAL pc84 layout.
This specific keyboard have only 84 key , a 60% (compact tenkeyless) reduced layout
My problem is ...
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Keyboard layouts failing to apply
I have an Ubuntu 11.04 install for which I can't seem to get the correct (UK English) keyboard mapping set on. Running setxkmap produces an error:
"XKB extension not present on :10.0".
If go to ...
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How do I enter Polish characters?
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and... I've got a problem :) I'm living in Poland, so I want to write texts in polish with polish chars such as ąćęłńóśźż, too. Unfortunately, it's impossible. We write ...
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How to add keyboard layout from user “guest” to logoin screen
I have installed latest ubuntu version on Windows. But accidently I have set a password using "Bulgarian letters". On the login screen in Ubuntu I have only English Layout for a keyboard.
How do I ...
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how to fix console keymap of installed system from livecd?
i have by mistake removed important graphical desktop packages.
due to some bug or error i cannot switch to latin letters, so cannot login, because cannot write user name (and password), if i go to ...
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The language changer applet disappeared
I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and my language changer applet just disappeared for all users. Every user has more than 1 keyboard layout, but on login the applet does not appear. The configured key ...
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How do I change the keyboard layout to this specific one?
How can i change the layout to this specific one?
setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include ...
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How to run Arabic 102 keyboard instead of 101
I'm completely new to Linux and Ubuntu, which I had just installed last night and I'm still feeling my way around it.
So far, I managed to install the Arabic language pack, but the keyboard only ...
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12.04 upgrade lost gb keyboard layout
Upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04. Keyboard Layout from System Settings only shows us listed in options but /etc/default/keyboard contains:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="gb"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""
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How to have a AZERTY layout AND numbers without push shift?
I'm french and I'm used to an AZERTY layout. Nevertheless I find painfull the fact to push shift to get numbers, and want to keep an AZERTY layout but with the numbers in QWERTY style.
Is it possible ...
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Is it possible to change the displayed name of the keyboard layout?
I would like to change the displayed name of the keyboard layout indicator — for example, right now mine reads en, ru or uk which does not look nice on the panel. Is it possible?
Can I edit some ...
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Keyboard layout [closed]
I can only find keyboard layouts with the L shaped enter key, I choose the US default which IIRC is supposed to have the straight shaped enter key and on the preview I always get the L shape, I tried ...
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Separate keyboard shortcuts for switching between keyboard layouts
I have a few language keyboard layouts installed in 12.04. I am using Ctrl-Shift keyboard shortcut for switching between language layouts. Such switching method takes a lot of my time.
Is there any ...
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Additional Language in KDE
I just installed KDE desktop environment and I want to install an additional language (Urdu) in unity 2d I was using it butt in KDE Its seems very difficult. Some where I get to know about to change ...
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How do I hide the Unity dock? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
How can I configure Unity?
How to revert to GNOME Classic?
I'm a new Ubuntu user. How to remove the menu icons in Ubuntu? I have googled and also check each System ...
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LibreOffice Writer Styles
Is there anyway to easyly manage styles on LibreOffice Writer ? For instance, by installing a add-on ?
When I was using Word, it was really intuitive to use differents styles, manage them and edit ...
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What keyboard layout for Ubuntu 13.04 with 'English Apple Notebook'
I don't have a keyboard layout that matches my Macbook Air under Ubuntu 13.04.
Keyboard is 'English - Apple Notebook' http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2841
Ubuntu 13.04 under VirtualBox on a Macbook ...
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How do I print an image in the upper left corner of the page
I print a number of screenshots and photos. They all print centered on my US Letter page. I'd like to print them starting in the upper left corner.
I tried several image viewers, gnome-photo-printer, ...
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How to Customize the (Phonetic-Arabic) Keyboard Layout? [duplicate]
uI am a newcomer to the linux world. Been using msoft for 20years or more. Just moved to Ubuntu since 3 weeks and I am really enjoying it.
I am needing an phonetic keyboard for arabic similar to ...
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Keyboard layouts once again
Layouts dont work, they don't change. Even atm ubuntu is telling me that I'm using russian layout, yet everything I write is common latin alphabet.
I have tried using the common "answer": using ...
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Has the min-max-close sequence changed in Ubuntu 12.04? [closed]
I've just moved from 11.10 to 12.04 LTS. I've noticed that my button layout has suddenly changed. Previously it was min-max-close (same as in windows), whereas in Ubuntu 12.04 it is close-min-max. Is ...
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Is there a GTK-Theme preview application?
is there an Application which lets me preview all the Theme-Widgets at once?
Like in the old Ubuntu-tweak there was some sort of Preview of all Theme-button/slider/progressbar-layouts. But nowadays ...
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Change Keyboard input
i'm Norwegian but i prefer the US/UK Keyboard
The problem comes when I have to use the ÆØÅ (Norwegian spesific) keys.
I'v made a script to change between these layouts.
Somewhere online i read about ...
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Gnome 3 Language input button missing from top bar
So I have 2 different language input layouts added and Gnome 3 will not show the button to switch between them on the top bar.
How would it be possible to enable it?
Also, I am not able to change ...
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Problem using French (Switzerland, Macintosh) Alt+{KEY} combinations
Here's my problem:
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 in Parallels on a Macbook Pro (June 2012 model). The first installation of Ubuntu using parallels was fine; everything worked. In that installation, I by ...
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How not to break the Ubuntu Software Center layout when removing the banner?
I've seen here how to delete the banner. In that question, it is the last answer the one that removes it truly, the accepted only hides it. But the problem is that it gets visually unappealing when ...
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Cannot switch keyboard layout on login screen [closed]
I cannot switch to a language which uses latin keyboard layout on the login-screen. Usually I can switch keyboard layouts by pressing ALT and SHIFT (as I have instructed the keyboard layout settings ...
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Missing Nautilus option “compact layout” [closed]
In GNOME 3 the nautilus option "compact layout" is missing.
Compact layout is the function which decrease the space between icons.
I made this image that you have a better impression of this ...
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How to make an Multilingual .Xmodmap? [closed]
I made the Upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 and lost every settings in the .Xmodmap, so I made a New again, but it did not included the other Language-Layouts I had choose to the Keyboard! I deleted it, added ...
