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So good to be back! Just a suggestion about keyboard layouts

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http://crunchbanglinux.org – Hi all,After a 6 month long Arch break, I’m back on CrunchBang, and boy it feels great to be back!I originally left to try the new GNOME 3.2 in Arch, and fooled around with it with different DEs and WMs.I ran it at home and at work, until I kmail decided to perma crash on me.Anyway I’m back and all is fine and everything, but I just wanted to submit a suggestion for next release.In the installer, during the step where you pick your keyboard layout, you're only given a subset of the available keyboard layouts offered in Xorg. Unfortunately for me, my layout of choice (a Dvorak based k (HowTos)

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Submitted by bolly on 04/30/2012 – Made popular on 04/30/2012

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I notice that the installer for Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 LTS contains an option that appears to allow you to toggle between more than one keyboard layout:

English (US) - English (layout toggle on multiply/divide key)

However, there is no information about this shown in the installer, and I can't find anything useful online.

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Stack wrote:the sad clown wrote:(just make sure that the changed layout doesn't break your keybind):setxkbmap -rules xorg -model pc104 -layout us -optionJust change the layout parameters (and any other changes you need) for as many layouts as you want.Unfortunately, if the single layout, or first in the list layout is not 'us', but my national, GUI applications will stop to react on

I was frustrated at how I had to bind a different keybinding to each layout I wanted to switch to.  So I came up with a simple script which simply checks a file and changes the keyboard layout accordingly.  I needed to switch between US and US International, so those are the two layouts my script checks for.  However, this can easily be adapted for more than two layouts.Here's

This is from a bug I reported that never got a response (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/881222). That was a 11.10 upgrade and now with a Precise upgrade, the issue continues with the Precise upgrade.

Symptom I can't add alternative keyboard layouts.

Steps to reproduce Go to Keyboard Layout Press the + button Nothing at all appears.

Hi there:

I usually type in Spanish, so my first choice in system-preferences-keyboard-layouts in Spanish. However, a couple of times the keyboard has set itself to the USA config, something that can be quite annoying when trying to log in in the system (password keys dont input the same characters in both layouts, it seems)

Tips please