On 21/05/17 06:40 AM, Sudhir Anand wrote:
I am having an issue with keyboard mapping in KDE on my laptop. I have set the language as "English GB" in both Yast and KDE. The keyboard is mapped as generic 101 in Yast and KDE.
However the @ and " keys have swapped and I cannot get them mapped correctly. Using the same settings in Leap 42.2, the keys are mapped correctly.
Where was your laptop made for. After his death, I inherited my father's It equipment and that included a laptop made for the British ("GB") market. The keys were different in that they were QUERT, yes, but the shift of the "2" key, which on the US keyboard is "@" was labelled '"'. The key I expected to be shift for '"' was labelled '@'. The software all sported this. When I ran LiveCD Linux I ran into the same confusion you have, I pressed the shifted "2" key which was labelled '"' and got the '@'. You don't say how your keys are labelled. If you have a physically US keyboard and run software that expects a GB key labelling, that could result in the same confusion as I had running a GB physical keyboard with software that expected US mapping. And, Oh it gets worse! here in Canada we now have "bilingual keyboards' to accommodate the French. The left hand shift key has been shrunk and there are a couple of extra keys with labels that are not found on US keyboards. Well, OK, but in actuality if I visit RadioShack/Tandy/Source or BestBuy or even Sears here in Toronto, the heart of Anglophone Canada, the laptops on sale are French Canadian not bilingual. I pointed this out to a salescritter once and he said that he hadn't noticed it before. Well, that says a lot about sales/product training. The keyboard at his sales terminal was a good old fashioned US/IBM. http://www3.uakron.edu/modlang/french/images/kbd4.gif http://www.ergocanada.com/products/keyboards/kinesis_maxim_fr_can_layout_120... -- A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. Dwight D. Eisenhower -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org