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Re: Keyboard layouts in GNOME3 on Debian Jessie



Hi Selim

> Well, here's a guess for "why": in your e-mail in the other thread, you 
> seemed to say you did a *new install* of jessie on your Lenovo T440s and 
> then you *upgraded* your desktop to jessie.  So maybe the desktop had an 
> old version of something, that had "US keyboard with German letters" in 
> it, but since then the name of that variant got changed or that variant 
> was subsumed by a different one.  (I don't *know* that the name changed.  
> It's just a possibility that came to mind.) 

Just checked my logs. The desktop system was a new installation too. 
The upgrade was on another machine. Sorry for that.

> 
> I use MATE and when I select layouts by language, for German, I see a 
> variant "English (US) English (International Alt Gr Dead keys)", 
> enabling German letters with AltGr.  Maybe that's a variant you 
> could try.  (According to [1], that's also the way "US keyboard with 
> German letters" seems to work.)
> 
> [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/2wvwdk/us_keyboard_with_german_letters/
> 
> 

Will go through that tomorrow

Eugen

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