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Posted: **Sun Nov 05, 2023 6:17 am**

Hi!!! I recently purchased a Dell latitude e7270 12,5 inch laptop and installed MX 23 xfce on it! I have a rather minor issue with the keyboard. According to laptops manual:

Keyboard specifications
Feature Specification
Number of keys • United States: 82 keys
• United Kingdom: 83 keys
• Brazil: 84 keys
• Japan: 86 keys

The default 105 keys layout did not much a lot, but searching found the best solution using generic 86-key PC layout.
Now it is usable but some keys dont match.
Has anybody any idea if there is a better or exact layout that works with this keyboard ?

Posted: **Sun Nov 05, 2023 6:36 am**

I guess it depends on the default locale/language.

Posted: **Sun Nov 05, 2023 7:55 am**

I have no need to change mine.....but you have not said what the physical kb layout looks like?

eg my US intl kb is a qwerty and variants can be seen under
/usr/share/keymaps ....eg /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty
and I guess you have already found
/etc/default/keyboard

2) Apparently

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# loadkeys <keymap>

allows you to try out various options but XFCE can allow multiple kb layouts....check your settings manager please

You may like to look at (but its an old link)
http://www.xfree86.org/current/XKB-Config2.html#3

Posted: **Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:19 am**

I guess it depends on the default locale/language.

The default language of the system is Greek, but keyboard layouts are us and gr.
Under xfce settings manager> keybord>layouts i have set the keyboad model to Generic 86-key PC

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# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us,gr"
XKBVARIANT=","
XKBOPTIONS="grp:lalt_lshift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

BACKSPACE="guess"

the /etc/default/keyboard looks a bit different...

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