Wrong Keyboard Layout

Desktop Environments Plasma
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Heya,

I use a Lenovo Thinkpad E14.

I want to set its keyboard layout to something which mirrors its hardware design.

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what layout should I use?

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UK, £ on the 3 is a dead giveaway :smiley:

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Which UK layout, the others aren’t accurate. For example: the # is replaced with a \ on most layouts

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That’s definitely a UK layout

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You have a QWERTY so you should not select Dvorak or Colemak.

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What is your locale set at?

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The issue is that certain symbols aren’t accurate, and I can’t find the accurate keyboard style name.

And example with be # sign on the keyboard is being replaced by a \.

which model should I select in the menu:

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What have you got under layouts?

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If you can’t find a layout that suits your keyboard, maybe remapping keys would work for you?

I don’t know how it works though, as I don’t need it, I just read about it.
It’s an option I think but still, this would be more a last resort thing to do

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I use keyd a lot, easy to use, give me a shout if you need help.

@Mellow clicked wrong reply - to bloody warm!

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Under the latest Plasma I don’t have a Layout tab. You can do the same by enabling Layouts in the bottom section and adding your keyboard under. I had to do this this morning because for some reason something changed my layout to US Eng.

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Did I click wrong reply? If so, sry.
For me it looks like I replied to OP which was my intention :man_shrugging:

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Replying to my self here this work to some extent but not everywhere. I’ll have to investigate more.

Edit: seems to work now…

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no i did :blush:

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Could I use this on the latest plasma ver?

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Don’t think that the DE matters here

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Ah, ok i’ll test it.

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I was over-complicating it.
For future reference go into Keyboard, press the add button and use the default UK keyboard (or which one applies to you specific sitaution.
Video: https://files.catbox.moe/nlm5ns.webm
Back-up: Video: https://anime-oni.is-a.dev/cdn/vids/EOS-forum.webm

I would like to thank everyone in the thread for being considerate.