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pmatos

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Registered: 2017-09-03

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[SOLVED] UK Keyboard layout not in effect

Hello,

I have a UK Dell XPS 15 9560 and I just got started with arch having come from Fedora.
I read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … on_in_Xorg and used localectl to set the locale which looks good to me:

➜  ~ localectl status
   System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
       VC Keymap: n/a
      X11 Layout: uk

but something is not quite right as the @ symbol is above the 2 instead of being on the right side of the keyboard close to the Enter key.

Am I missing a variant maybe?

Last edited by pmatos (2018-05-15 19:31:34)

ooo

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Re: [SOLVED] UK Keyboard layout not in effect

Are you sure 'uk' layout is correct? I don't see it listed in localectl list-x11-keymap-layouts output.

'gb' layout works for me with XPS 9360.

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] UK Keyboard layout not in effect

See 'man 7 xkeyboard-config' for a comprehensive (?) list of layouts and their human-readable descriptors.

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pmatos

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Re: [SOLVED] UK Keyboard layout not in effect

OK, that was embarassing. Thanks OOO.