Hello,

if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, what values are in /etc/default/keyboard?

I've tried "pc105" (default) and "latitude" and neither echo the hash
symbol (Shift-3) nor the pipe character.

TIA,

Robert





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Am Samstag, 31. Mai 2025, 10:00:30 CEST schrieb rob stone:

Hello,

if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, what values are in /etc/default/keyboard?

I've tried "pc105" (default) and "latitude" and neither echo the hash
symbol (Shift-3) nor the pipe character.

TIA,

Robert

I habe a latitude 5400, and my entry is see below:



--------------------


# If you change any of the following variables and HAL and X are
# configured to use this file, then the changes will become visible to
# X only if HAL is restarted. In Debian you need to run
# /etc/init.d/hal restart

# The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same
# values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options
# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

XKBMODEL="latitude"
XKBLAYOUT="de"
XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys"
XKBOPTIONS="compose:lwin,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

# If you don't want to use the XKB layout on the console, you can
# specify an alternative keymap. Make sure it will be accessible
# before /usr is mounted.
# KMAP=/etc/console-setup/defkeymap.kmap.gz
BACKSPACE="guess"
--------------------
Hope this helps.

Best

Hans



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On 5/31/25 3:00 AM, rob stone wrote:

Hello,

if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop,

I have a Dell Latitude E6410

what values are in /etc/default/keyboard?

I see:

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

I've tried "pc105" (default) and "latitude" and neither echo the hash
symbol (Shift-3) nor the pipe character.

That statement does not mean anything to me.
Do you need anything else?

TIA,

Robert

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Are you sure the keyboard works, properly ex. (no dead keys)?
I have a Dell Latitude E6500 and all of the keys on the keyboard work
fine.

On Sat, 31 May 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:

Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 06:18:52 -0500
From: Richard Owlett <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Dell latitude keymap
Resent-Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 11:19:13 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: [email protected]

On 5/31/25 3:00 AM, rob stone wrote:

Hello,

if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop,

I have a Dell Latitude E6410

what values are in /etc/default/keyboard?

I see:

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

I've tried "pc105" (default) and "latitude" and neither echo the hash
symbol (Shift-3) nor the pipe character.

That statement does not mean anything to me.
Do you need anything else?

TIA,

Robert

[email protected]
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org

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Am Samstag, 31. Mai 2025, 13:18:52 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett:
Hi Richard,

where do you want to type it? In X? Then with which windowmanager? Or in the native console (F1 - F5)?

Please note, that X, as well as each window manager and console itself is
using theire own configuration, but maybe you know this already.

On my Latiitude notebook I can not get the display brightness running (Fn + F5 and Fn + F6), to get the display light brighter or darker. I am using Plasma (KDE). This is working in XFCE, but not in KDE.

However, running KDE in a live-system like Knoppix, this is working there,
too.

Hope this wil be fixed in Trixie, but if not, it is not a big problem for me.

Best

Hans

On 5/31/25 3:00 AM, rob stone wrote:

Hello,

if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop,

I have a Dell Latitude E6410

what values are in /etc/default/keyboard?

I see:

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

I've tried "pc105" (default) and "latitude" and neither echo the hash symbol (Shift-3) nor the pipe character.

That statement does not mean anything to me.
Do you need anything else?

TIA,

Robert

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On Sat 31 May 2025 at 18:00:30 (+1000), rob stone wrote:

if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, what values are in /etc/default/keyboard?

I had a British Latitude D430, and I had:

XKBMODEL="latitude"
XKBLAYOUT="gb"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
BACKSPACE="guess"

after I substituted for this line:

XKBOPTIONS="caps:none,compose:menu,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

I've tried "pc105" (default) and "latitude" and neither echo the hash
symbol (Shift-3) nor the pipe character.

What language is your keyboard, what do those keys type, and where is
your pipe key?

Cheers,
David.

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