From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com> To: Linux console tools development discussion <kbd@lists.altlinux.org> Subject: Re: [kbd] Characters '<', '>' etc. with German layout Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 14:27:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20220106132749.j3vh7bkpwaikulkr@example.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <288cad40-8cbb-33af-85a5-3ee651eed3f1@yahoo.de> On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 04:49:20PM +0100, R. Diez wrote: > Hi all: > > I am using Ubuntu 20.04.4, with the MATE Desktop Environment, on a > Lenovo ThinkPad T440s laptop. > > I believe that the right keyboard model for this laptop is a "Lenovo > (previously IBM)", "IBM Space Saver". > > On xkeycaps, I think the right model is "IBM", "ThinkPad 770". > > I have 2 keyboard layouts installed: Spanish and German, and I am having > difficulty typing some common ASCII characters like '<', '>', the pipe > symbol '|', etc. That is very annoying when working on a shell console. > > When using the Spanish layout, I can get '<' and '>' by holding the > right Alt key and one of the shift keys, and then pressing 'x' or 'z' > (it may be 'y', because 'y' and 'z' and swapped on German keyboards). > > However, when using the German layout, the same key combinations > generate some Unicode variant of '<' and '>', namely '‹' and '›', which > the shell does not recognise as redirection indicators. > > I haven't managed to type the pipe symbol ('|') yet with the German > layout, so I am constantly switching layouts. How did you configure the keymap in the console? Since you mentioned ubuntu, I can assume that you have the console-setup package installed. Is it so ? If so, can you show me content of /etc/default/keyboard ? > Is there an easy way to fix these annoyances? Or do I have to learn how > to create my own keyboard layouts? If you use console-setup then it's better to ask a package maintainers. > I am completely unfamiliar with Linux keyboard support. Is the kbd > project the right place to ask at all? It depends :) -- Rgrds, legion
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-06 13:27 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2022-01-05 15:49 ` R. Diez 2022-01-06 13:27 ` Alexey Gladkov [this message] 2022-01-13 19:39 ` R. Diez 2022-01-17 12:29 ` Alexey Gladkov
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