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Your Arabic keyboard layout has two regular Alt keys. Your English layout has regular Left Alt and a special kind of Right Alt: AltGr, which allows your to access third and fourth level of characters. It doesn't behave as regular Alt. It works the same in Linux Mint 18.x. Maybe, previously you used ...

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What's your Linux Mint version?
What's the name of your keyboard layout?
Which key do you want to use as Alt Gr?

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gg22LM wrote: ⤴
Wed Jun 05, 2019 1:55 am
what can I do to regain my old $ as shift+4 ?

Run this command in terminal and restart the computer:

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sudo sed -i '69s|.*|key<AE04>{[4,dollar,dollar,onequarter]};|' \
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/latin && sudo dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data

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Fn key is mapped at the hardware level and cannot be disabled in software but you can disable keys which are emulated by Fn + key combinations. Run this command in terminal and restart the computer. It will disable all keypad keys. sudo sed -i '15s|.*||' /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc \ && sudo dpkg-...

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To swap Up and Right Shift run this command in terminal and restart the computer:

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sudo sed -i \
-e '29s|.*|key<UP>{[Shift_R]};|' \
-e '83s|.*|key<RTSH>{[Up]};|' \
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc \
&& sudo dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data

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It's a tricky one.
Run this command to open a file:

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xed admin:///etc/default/keyboard

Change XKBLAYOUT="us" to XKBLAYOUT="fr" and restart the computer.

Which keyboard layout have you chosen during installation?

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The login screen uses a default keyboard layout chosen during installation.
To change it run this command in terminal and restart the computer:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

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sudo sed -i '6s|.*|key<TLDE>{[bracketleft,asciitilde]};|' \
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us \
&& sudo dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data

... and restart the computer.

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Did I muck up the syntax (...) given that it remapped my keyboard AND Cinnamon out of existence. Yes, totally. :lol: All I want to do is remap {,[ key to the `~ key. To confirm, you want to replace symbol ` with [ ? What is the name of you keyboard layout? You can find it in Keyboard > Layouts

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Which keyboard layout do you want to modify?
Which symbols do you want to add and in what positions? (keys like Insert, Home or Print Screen can also be remapped if you don't use them)

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You can do it in GUI: "Keyboard > Layouts > Options > Caps Lock behavior > Swap ESC and Caps Lock"

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Which settings I need to know before I start to remap his keyboard layout?
He wrote everything works as expected except for dead keys. We can replace them by adding missing letters, which is not dependent on any settings.
Sorry about your feelings.

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Of course this is possible - but before you tamper with system and country settings, you should already know how the system is set up at all... Why do you assume I don't know how the system is set up? It's not only possible, it's easy if you know what you're doing. The system will be safe and any c...

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Any keyboard layout can be remapped. Choose one layout (for example "German (Switzerland) French (Switzerland, no dead keys)") and write which letters you want to add and in what position. For example:
ê = ł (ê instead of ł)

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Remapping Right Shift and Right Ctrl to Enter.
Run this command in terminal and restart the computer:

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sudo sed -i \
-e '29s|.*|key<RTSH>{[Return]};|' \
-e '30s|.*|key<RCTL>{[Return]};|' \
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc \
&& sudo dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data

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Finnish keyboard layout:
AltGr + 7 = {
AltGr + 0 = }
AltGr + 8 = [
AltGr + 9 = ]

AltGr in Mac is probably right option key.

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To change your default layout chosen during installation run this command and restart the computer:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

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First level of characters: press a key Second level of characters: Shift + key Third level of characters: AltGr + key Fourth level of characters: Shift + AltGr + key If you want non-breaking space as Shift + Space choose: > Non-breaking space at the 2nd level If you want it as AltGr + Space choose: ...

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xmodmap is obsolete, use xkb.
Run this command in terminal and restart the computer:

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sudo sed -i '30s|.*|key <RCTL>{[slash,question,degree]};|' \
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc && sudo dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data

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Keyboard > Layouts > Options > Using space key to input non-breaking space

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