Re: default English (US) QWERTY layout
On Sunday 15 November 2015 21:46:23 Ric Moore wrote:
> On 11/15/2015 04:34 PM, rlharris@oplink.net wrote:
> > On Sun, November 15, 2015 2:10 pm, David Christensen wrote:
> >> I just did a fresh install of debian-8.2.0-amd64-xfce yesterday:
> >>
> >> Keyboard model Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
> >
> > Obviously, the keyboard settings menu (reached from xfce by
> >
> > applications -> setting -> keyboard -> layout
> >
> > has its own layout nomenclature. The only "English (US, ...)" selections
> > which the menu on my system (i386, Jessie, Xfce) offers are:
> >
> > English (US, international with dead keys)
This one appears to be the "normal" "standard" US international.
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Dead keys on various keyboard layouts[edit]
Main article: Keyboard layout
A key may function as a dead key by default, and many non-English keyboard
layouts in particular have dead keys directly on the keyboard. The basic US
keyboard does not have any dead keys, but the US-International keyboard
layout, available on Windows and the X Window System, places some dead keys
directly on similar-looking punctuation marks. Old computer systems, such as
the MSX, often had a special key labeled dead key, which in combination with
the Ctrl and Shift keys could be used to add some of the diacritics commonly
needed in the Western European languages (´, `, ˆ and ¨) to vowels that were
typed subsequently.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=English+(US,+international+with+dead+keys),
+layout&es_sm=93&biw=1156&bih=835&tbm=isch&imgil=0nPw4DKeEA8BAM%253A%253BKCWVRBoNfdDbvM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fapple.stackexchange.com%25252Fquestions%25252F30262%25252Fus-international-altgr-dead-keys-layout-on-mac-os-x&source=iu&pf=m&fir=0nPw4DKeEA8BAM%253A%252CKCWVRBoNfdDbvM%252C_&usg=__7-YA249zdN0UqeYtD4catm2jDSU%3D&ved=0CCgQyjdqFQoTCIesnKS4k8kCFcRaGgodWzEJMA&ei=HQJJVsepIMS1advipIAD#imgrc=VPY-rIKk-acQWM%3A&usg=__7-YA249zdN0UqeYtD4catm2jDSU%3D
Lisi
> > English (US, with euro on 5)
> >
> > none of which look familiar to me. So I wondered whether I had managed
> > to delete whatever is the default English US layout.
> >
> > What I would like to know is the "English (US...)" options which the
> > keyboard settings menu offers if the menu has not been used to switch
> > from the default English US layout to some other layout.
>
> Mine says "Generic 105 (intl) PC" for keyboard model and "English (US)"
> for layout. Hope that helps. That is the "system default" setting used
> at install time. Ric
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