Detect Keyboard [Solved]

[Collier]

Briliiant thank you!!!!!
That's sorted it!!

[Charlie Brown]

When I changed to this laptop I noticed that the right Ctrl key was not working. Keyboard was automatically set to Generic-105 key (as on the other laptop).

Then I decided to count all the keys one by one ( ) beginning from Esc on top-left , and it was actually 102. Changed the setting to Generic-102 and voila :)

If the thread was not solved I was going to suggest this

[Eadwine Rose]

I am now going to count my keys... 101.

Thing is from the era when WinXP was the latest greatest.

[siamhie]

My keyboard is an 84 key Keychron K3 v2 TKL keyboard but the Generic 105 setting works.
With Linux you change it from a Windows keyboard to Mac keyboard using a switch on the backside so that the function keys work properly.

I then test it to make sure all the keys work as expected. https://en.key-test.ru/

[Eadwine Rose]

I was looking for something like that, thanks!

[MXRobo]

A very similar one, posted by someone recenty: https://shawon9324.github.io/apps/keytester/

[fehlix]

To view and test your current keyboard layout, if you only have one layout:
Run this to show and test the keyboard layout

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gkbd-keyboard-display -g 1

In case you have more then one layouts enable, which can be done with up to max 4 layouts:
you can see the other layouts with changing number

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gkbd-keyboard-display -g 2

If you want to show a layout, which is not enabled but can be viewed with
e.g like this in German layout:

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gkbd-keyboard-display -l de

The tool gkbd-keyboard-display comes with the package gkbd-capplet.
To install run

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sudo apt install gkbd-capplet

HTH