If the keyboard on the unix terminal you're using isn't typing by the normal QWERTY combination.


Step-by-step guide

  1. Go in to terminal

  2. Hunt out the text to type:

    setxkbmap us
  3. Consider putting this in the startup file if it's not there already


Note: I haven't tested this yet. Anyone who can confirm it works please delete this info box

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2 Comments

  1. Cunningham, Eric Flint

    There are a few easier ways to do this:

    • the RHEL7 machines are much more stable than the old ones, and the icon in the top right menu tray actually works at the moment – meaning that you can click and select the keyboard layout that you want
    • after significant desperate searching in the pre-RHEL7 dark days, I eventually found that the keyboard shortcut to change keyboard layouts is SHIFT+CapsLock

    1. Gilliss Dyer

      Please feel free to edit this how-to directly