Keyboard problem

[sachinwable]

Hi,

I have a brand new logitech keyboard purchased this morning. But when I connect it to my Rpi3, Shift+2 prints " (double quote) instead of "@" and Shift+' (Single quote) prints "@" symbol instead of "(double quote).

All other keys are working as expected and strange thing is keyboard works all good when i connect it to my laptop. I have tried plugging it in different usb port on Rpi3 but it still have that weird behaviour. Is that some bug with my Rpi3? Do you face this problem?

Sachin Wable

[rpdom]

Is that some bug with my Rpi3? Do you face this problem?

No, and no. Because our keyboards are supposed to have the " character on the 2 key.

It sounds like you are using some weird foreign keyboard (US?), as opposed to the Pi's standard UK layout.

Go into the configuration tool and set your Location, Timezone and Keyboard layout.
(there's one in the desktop menus, or you can use "sudo raspi-config" in a terminal.)

[sachinwable]

But then why it works well when I test it on my laptop with windows os?

Do you mean this has something to do with os configuration?

I have latest noobs rasbian and I have not modified any settings in rasbian. Then?

[Burngate]

Yes, it's in the configuration.

If your keyboard has @ above the 2 and # above the 3, it's probably American.
If you get " and £, your Pi is set to UK.

Have a look in Wikipedia, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout

[masa-aud]

reply to sachinwable on keyboard
So you can understand that already fixed identification of what KB on BIOS when installing Win 10 of your PC happens just to your new KB, and your Pi wants to identify from now on your new KB with the initial configuration.
OS receives signal of each keystroke as of physical position then recognizes character referring what type of KB from.
masa

[Rive]

To change you keyboard default:

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sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard

XKBLAYOUT="us"

[sachinwable]

Great, Thanks guys you are being very helpful.. setting XKBLAYOUT="us" in /etc/default/keyboard resolved the problem. by default it was XKBLAYOUT="gb"

It required my pi to restart to take effect of this change.. I can type as my KB now.. @@@@@ YAyyyyyyyyyy