I have my keyboard settings unwillingly changed System ubuntu 14.04 lts all my german letters are giving other symbols. The Z and the Y have changed position and all the shift symbols above the numbers are changed. The @ is now shift 2
Can someone give me the information to come back to an german keybord. I am just an user so please give only keyboard commands
In most cases it is easy to reset the keyboard.
setxkbmap de
in a terminal window will do it for you.
This kind of setting will not survive a reboot, but probably the action that caused the change of keyboard was also only temporary.
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Afterwards, you can reboot the computer and check what keyboard you get.
If not correct after reboot you should click the icon with a cog wheel and a wrench, and look into the settings for language and keyboard.
Please try to remember, what programs you were running when or just before this happened - running some application programs or maybe installing or updating some program package (updating can be automatic, but should not change the keyboard).
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Maybe the keyboard was changed to English (US English is the default). It matches the description, but also some other languages could match that description.
