Good idea. I'll have to get a thumb drive to try it out. I think my fatal mistake was installing pop-os while my Logitech keyboard was installed. It thinks it's the default keyboard, not the laptop keyboard. At home, I always have a wireless mouse & keyboard set-up. Going on the road, I don't want to carry that stuff. I just don't seem to know where or how to find the appropriate configuration files anymore. X11 files are basically empty. Basically haven't kept up with the more modern setups. Systemd et. al.
My laptop keyboard works, at least many of the keys, but some don't. Has to be a mapping thing. The Logitech unifying receiver was unplugged but it is still using a Logitech keyboard mapping on my native keyboard. Some letters don't type at all, others type some other character. Some letters won't capitalize, but others do. Of course you know that some of those characters are in my password, so it's annoying as all get out. The System 76 keyboard program thinks I have a Logitech keyboard attached but it isn't. I see no place to select your actual keyboard with X number of keys anymore. Like 105 keys. This has been hidden from the user. I don't like this at all. I don't know where the capability is currently located. Picking keyboards used to be relatively easy. I realize this is making me sound even older, but, hey I am older, and with some luck I will continue to get older. I'm just hoping that changing the default keyboard hasn't been removed. So if someone knows where the heck a simple human readable keyboard config file is, please point me in the right direction, or tell me it isn't possible. This stuff should be easy, if it isn't then something is truly wrong... Get BlueMail for Android On Dec 21, 2022, 2:21 PM, at 2:21 PM, Jim McGinness <jmc...@gmail.com> wrote: >Fossil here, too. I sympathize. > >I'm not sure what exact problem you are experiencing, but one way to >start >to get a handle on it is to create a USB thumb drive with a "live" >version >of one or more other Linux distributions and try booting to it to see >whether they get a reasonable keyboard configuration out-of-the-box. > >I have an old netbook where I mangled the keyboard connector, so it has >to >have an external keyboard to do anything. > >And there's also this possibility: >https://github.com/pop-os/keyboard-configurator > > -- jmcg > >On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 1:21 PM Bruce Labitt ><bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net> >wrote: > >> Feeling like a bit of a fossil and not knowing what files do what, or >> where things are located. Need to fix an obnoxious problem with a >> keyboard and realize I just don't know even how to investigate this >> anymore. What are recommended sources for a modern overview of >system >> files, purposes and organization? >> >> Think my laptop now believes my Logitech keyboard is the default >> keyboard. This is bad, because it has a different number of keys and >> the mapping is different. This a royal pia. I am typing with a >mouse. >> Even the space bar doesn't work. Practically it makes a laptop into >a >> desktop system. I don't even know where to start since a lot of the >> Linux cheese moved, in the past 10 years. >> >> System76 Oryx 6 Pro laptop. POPOS 22.04. >> >> Any tips or pointers to well written overviews on the modern >> organization would be appreciated. Perhaps I could learn enough to >at >> least know the correct search terms. >> >> TIA, Bruce >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >>
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