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Gabachin

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Registered: 2022-05-06

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French Variant Keyboard layout

I recently bought a Dell XPS 15 with what I thought was a French QWERTY keyboard. I have not been able to find the correct keymaps for it. The options I believe are available are

fr

fr-bepo

fr-bepo-latin9

fr-latin1

fr-latin9

fr-pc

fr_CH

from which I discarded the bepo layouts. First thought was to just go through the list using setxkbmap but does anyone know what the correct keymap for my keyboard is, from the following screenshot?

https://imgur.com/gallery/T2MHR6D

Last edited by Gabachin (2023-03-24 23:59:37)

schard

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Re: French Variant Keyboard layout

The laptop appears to be used.
Chances are that it in fact was a French keyboard layout and the previous owner just swapped the keys to use it with an English / American keyboard mapping.
If you use "fr", is pressing "QWERTY" producing "AZERTY"?

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Gabachin

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Registered: 2022-05-06

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Re: French Variant Keyboard layout

This is the strange thing. The laptop was sold in France so I assumed the keyboard would be azerty but it is not. It is qwerty, but with a "French" layout otherwise. I live in Mexico and tried to swap out the keyboard for a latam/la-latin1 one, but it was physically impossible, I did a search and can not find the keyboard anywhere.

schard

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Re: French Variant Keyboard layout

You did not answer my question.

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seth

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Re: French Variant Keyboard layout

schard is most likely right, that's just azerty w/ some flipped keycaps and completely custom.
You can use evtest or showkeys to figure what codes are actually produced but will most likely have to derive your own (azerty based) layout for this from /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr

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Gabachin

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Registered: 2022-05-06

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Re: French Variant Keyboard layout

Turns out that the custom layout is just fr with QWERTY and AZERTY switched, so I just had to change la-latin1 to la-fr and remap several keys.

Last edited by Gabachin (2023-03-28 15:06:52)