Fossadog 20.04 / Keybord layout change(SOLVED)

[soniabu]

Hi all.
fossadog 20.04 is my system.
how do i change the keyboard layout?
For example from English French, or Italian etc.
Now when I type the (-) it appears to me (/) if I want the (?) It appears to me (_)
I looked in the settings section but I couldn't find a way to give it the keybord that matches mine (it).
thx
sonia

[williams2]

Puppy has a mouse-keyboard wizard.
Maybe Fossadog has something similar, I don't know.

You can edit xorg.conf and configure it to use multiple languages.

Or you can use setxkbmap. For example, you can put this in a script:

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#!/bin/sh
setxkbmap 'it,fr,us(alt-intl)' -option grp:lctrl_lshift_toggle

When you press the left ctrl key and the left shift key together, it should switch to the next keymap.

In Puppy, you can put the script in /root/Startup/ or put the name of the script in /root/.xinitrc if you want the script to run automatically every time Puppy boots. Fossadog probably has some way to do the same thing.

[fredx181]

Hi Sonia, probably the suggestion from @williams2 works, not sure.
Anyway, there's Menu entry > System > Set Keyboard Layout, for example set it up like this (no reboot required, it will apply directly, in contrary to what it says at the end):

Set Keyboard Layout

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[soniabu]

Thx Fred, Thx Will.
I downloaded the iso again and I'm going to re-install everything
as that function described by Fred I didn't have it in the System in the previous iso.
Now, with the new iso, I found it and fixed the keyboard.
Thanks again
sonia