[sf-lug] Feren Linux

[Akkana Peck]

John Strazzarino writes:
> As I mentioned on Sunday at the zoom meeting, I am still having trouble trying to find the right keyboard mapping, so that a @ comes out as that character and not a “ character.  Makes it hard to put in an email address.
> 
> Can anyone assist?  I’ve looked thru all the menus but don’t seem to find. The right spot

As I mentioned at the meeting, this sounds like you have wrong
keyboard layout. For instance, it's a very common problem on
Raspbian because the keyboard is configured as en_UK rather than
en_US by default.

Fixing it depends on your distro and might also depend on your desktop.
Should I guess from the Subject line that you're using Feren Linux?
One disadvantage of using uncommon distros (I'd never even heard of
Feren before) is that it's more difficult to figure out how to solve
problems when they arise, since web searches don't turn up many hits
and nobody who's not running it themselves can help you look through
the menus.

Googling for things like feren linux keyboard layout led me to
https://feren-os-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installoverwindows.html
which shows a keyboard settings option in the installer, but
I don't see anything about how to change it later.

On Debian derivatives (I don't know if Feren is), one way is
    sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
so that might be worth trying. Or you could try
    setxkbmap us
(that's also from a Debian page, but might apply to other distros).
Otherwise, you might need someone familiar with Feren.

        ...Akkana