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In 13.04 or below I only needed to access the keyboard layout and then click on the Options button as seen in the image below:

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In 13.10 the Options button is missing as seen in the following image:

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So what is the new method to access any and all Keyboard Layout Options. In my case I wish to activate 3 of them, from killing X, to some custom keys.

Luis Alvarado
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That's what GNOME developers decided. Instead, you can access equivalent setting menu in gnome-tweak-tool.

Try install gnome-tweak-tool in official repository and go to typing section.

papyelt
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It seems that this is by design; there has been a reorganization of the keyboard/input methods. Now the keyboard configuration is accessed by system settings -> keyboard, tab shortcut, Typing entries:

keyboard typing shortcuts

But quite a lot of options is just not here anymore, like the settings for ctrl-alt-backspace.

There is now a specific issue opened in Launchpad to ask that back: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1245064

By the way, on Nov. 2, 2013, there are still quite a handful of bugs with the change, which you can explore with the quite long and detailed list of related bug linked in the description of the issue aforementioned.

Rmano
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It's still possible to make the change from the command line using dpkg. Credit goes to this site: http://www.humans-enabled.com/2013/10/ubuntu-1310-enable-controlaltbackspace.html. To sum up what's written there, you can open a terminal and enter

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

This will take you through a series of options for the keyboard; for the first 4 or 5 just hit enter to keep things as is, and you'll end up with the option to enable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

Sean Fitzpatrick
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Look into the "Keyboard" and delete all languages except the language you want. Save the changes. Th eproblem should be fixed

Tor M
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Use the shortcut key to switch back to the US keyboard source. In System Settings > Keyboard, select the Shortcuts tab, then select Typing. Try pressing the key combination shown as Switch to previous source or Switch to next source.

I bet that Tor M's solution would have the same effect.

I discovered this because I installed Japanese language and intentionally switched to Japanese. Then I recognized that the punctuation symbols moved to their locations on a Japanese keyboard. So I just used the keyboard shortcut again to switch back to the US English keyboard.

John McGehee
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