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SurfaceBook 2 13: keyboard layout for English
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German umlauts on a US keyboard
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| | As someone learning German, I wanted to avoid learning a new keyboard layout (German QWERTZ) as well as the language. Thus in this blog post, I go into the details of how to get German umlauts on a US keyboard layout across Linux, MacOS and Windows. A little background Like most Polish computer users, I grew up with the, awkwardly named, Polish (programmers) layout. It is effectively a English (US) with the Alt+Gr (a.
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Getting the FRIKKING euro key working on a Dvorak keyboard layout in Ubuntu 5.04 // voices in my head
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| | I've lost at least 5 hours of my life to the frikking euro key on my Microsoft Natural (old-style) keyboard. It seems that Gnome 2.10 on Ubuntu 5.04, otherwise a great combination, enjoys torturing its Dvorak keyboard layout users with the euro-symbol on the "5" key. It simply doesn't work, no matter what you try. After sacrificing the prerequisite 5 hours to the Linux gods of Ultimate Non-Usability, I came up with the following solution. Make the following change to your /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/dvorak f...
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Janik von Rotz - Map Keyboard Key
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| I am using a "Keychron K3 Pro" keyboard. Right of the space key there is a "Super" key to run the launcher (similar to windows key). Therefore the "Alt Right" key is missing and this makes creating umlauts more difficult. I am using the "Enlgish (int, with AltGr dead keys)" keyboard layout and pressing Alt Right+Shift Right+" gives me the ยจ. Remapping a key in linux is very easy.