Keyboard problems

dogeymon

So I had a little keyboard controller and every time I want to put down a # symbol with shift and 3, it puts down a £ symbol instead. And I tried every other key on the board and no hashtag is anywhere

I thought ok I better just go to the goodwill and get a usb Keyboard and try it with that

Same thing with the new keyboard I bought. Shift+3 puts down a £ symbol. Does anyone know what’s causing this? Is it a configuration for foreign keyboards or something? Is this how keyboards are in Europe?

mitu

@dogeymon The default layout for the keyboad is GB, that's where the pound sign comes from. Edit the /etc/default/keyboard file and change the layout to us:


XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

then reboot the system and try again.