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A keyboard allows a user to send characters to the Raspberry Pi, a common input device.

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Raspbian keyboard layout

I want to set my keyboard settings to Swedish, but on the Raspbian configuration tool my keyboard is not on the list. Update: Changing XKBLAYOUT to "se" doesn't work. And internationalization in raspi-config doesn't either. My keyboard is a Logitech…
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Why is my @ symbol not working?

I've never used linux before, so this may be a problem with that, but I'm trying to simply SSH into my friends webserver using the info he gave me. I looked up that the linux command to ssh is ssh username@hostname. I'm not trying to type that into…
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How to map Caps Lock key to something useful?

I'm used to mapping Caps Lock to Escape, particularly for use in Vim. In Ubuntu, this is simple from the GUI. In other distros, a utility like xmodmap can be used. I tried this, but it seems that xmodmap cannot be installed by apt. Can this sort of…
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Raspberry Pi keys are switched?

I have a new Raspberry Pi, when I try to type double quotes by using shift and the single quote buttons on the keyboard, I get an @ symbol. When I do shift + 2, I get the double quotes. A few different keys are like this. How do I change this back…
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Using an old laptop keyboard with Raspberry Pi

I have an old laptop keyboard like the one shown below: It has a 24-wire flat cable coming out of the back. Would it be possible to use this as a keyboard for the Pi (I assume with some microcontroller in between)?
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Can't get '~' using shift-` but shift-\ gives tilde

Also when I try to get the pipe command | using Shift+\ it gives me a tilde '~'. I've tried a different keyboard and those are the only 2 mis-mappings I see.
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change keyboard layout in console

I want to change the keyboard to us in the console. I am able to change the layout in the startx environment via sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration but it doesn't change in the console. If I use startx and then use the lxterminal the…
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How to Remap the Raspbian “Wheezy” Keyboard

I am having a strange problem. I just finished setting up my wonderful Raspberry Pi, and it works great, except for the fact that it is not compatible with my wired Mac OSX Keyboard. I can type perfectly well - letters and numbers work fine. But,…
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How to type hash ('#') in the boot config

I'm trying to edit the config.txt at the NOOBS boot menu. This file format comments out lines by putting # at the start. How do I type that character? (Typing it normally on my keyboard generates the old UK currency symbol). Note: I have already…
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Making input device for Raspberry Pi

So I'm planning on making an arcade style machine using a raspberry pi. Doing this will require some inputs like up, down, left, right, start etc. Exactly how would I go about doing this. Can the input be passed directly from the button to the pi,…
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How to remap Caps Lock to ESC

UPDATE: The method below seems to work fine if the Pi boots into commandline, but doesn't work if Pi is configured to boot into X. ==== I've just started dabbling with the Raspberry Pi. Being a frequent Vim user, as well as having bash/zsh in…
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What's the layout of the official Raspberry Pi keyboard (GB)?

I bought one from the Pi Hut (with a GB layout). I made the mistake of changing keyboard layout to generic 105 keys and now nothing at all happens when I type. Nor does the mouse, which is plugged into it, move now (strange). I repeated with another…
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Monitoring Keyboard without Monitor

Working on a project that uses a little keyboard and an E-ink display. I have tried a couple of keyboard packages for python (pynput, pyxhook) and have written/tested simple keystroke loggers that work fine on my desktop (ubuntu) However I try to…
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Remapping keyboard

How can I remap my keyboard it is on a Motorola lapdock 100 The @ " / |# are all in the wrong place I have tried Sudo Dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration but Motorola is not in the list any where.and these keys any vital to programming.
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Configuring Emacs and Keyboard to work like my Windows set-up

There are various differences between the default Windows installation of Emacs and the default installation on the Pi, things like Ctrl-Backspace, Ctrl-Left, Ctrl-Right and so on. Generally, the key sequences don't do anything on the Pi…
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