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184450 2003-10-18 09:09:00 Hi all,

Got a small problem with Linux. I need to know how to change the keyboard layout from QWERTY UK to QWERTY US, at the moment the pipe character '|' is replaced by a '#'. I'm running Debian Woody.

P.S. Theres no windowing sytem installed, so alerting me about the KDE or GNOME control panels will not help immensly.

Cheers,
Ben
Caesius (3758)
184451 2003-10-19 01:37:00 It's a long time since I've had to think about this ... I had a 5-floppy distribution which installed the Portuguese keyboard layout --- I had to use that to run vi to fix it :_|. (The old DOS books showed me which keys to hit).

Have a look in /etc/rc.d for anything appropriate ... maybe "rc.keyboard" .

It might have something like loadkeys /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/uk.mapwhich you will change to contain us.map . I have an idea you can make it give the "dead keys" for accents by using xx-latin1.map but most peoople ask how to turn that off. :D
Graham L (2)
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