[sf-lug] Feren Linux

[John Strazzarino]

Thanks to Alana and Rick..

Setxkbmap us did the trick!  Now I can type @@@@@@ to my hearts content.

Such a simple answer !

John 

Sent from my iPad

> On Aug 4, 2020, at 2:50 PM, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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