Questions tagged [keyboard]

Questions about keyboards, both touch and otherwise. However, please add the "touchscreen" tag for touchscreen keyboard questions.

Keyboards provide a way of inputting letters, numerals and other symbol characters, and otherwise manipulating an operating system by means of "shortcuts" or "hotkeys"

A keyboard may be a physical device attached to a computer (whether integrated or external), or it may be virtual, as in the case of many phones and tablets, and the Onboard application.

How key selections are interpreted and output by the system receiving them depends on the keyboard layout in use, and on locale settings.

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How do I remap certain keys or devices?

I'm searching for a way to remap certain keys in ubuntu. i.e. I'd like to change PgUp to Home or PgDown to End. Does a built-in command or a tool exist reassign keys in Ubuntu/GNOME?
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Keyboard locks in IntelliJ IDEA on Ubuntu 14.04

Could you help me with hell of a weird issue? I use Intellij IDEA 13 on Ubuntu 14.04, and from time to time my keyboard completely (yep, completely, it's not about shortcuts) locks in IDEA. I still can do anything I want in IDEA with my mouse, also…
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How to invert fn keys on Dell Laptop?

My Dell laptop (XPS 15z) has special keys on the F1 to F12 keys. If I want to disable keyboard backlight, for example, I must type Fn + F6. Is it possible to invert it? In fact, I don't often use the F* keys. How can I only hit F6 to disable the…
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Is there a way to disable a laptop's internal keyboard?

A week ago, I spilt the contents of my cup onto my laptop keyboard. Half of the keys no longer work, except one! The letter Q which is very active regularly. This is very disturbing as I work. Is there a way to disable the internal keyboard of a…
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How to set keyboard repeat delay and speed in Ubuntu Gnome 16.10?

In previous versions I could tweak the keyboard repeat delay and speed by going to Settings → Keyboard → Typing. Now in Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 (with GNOME 3.20.2) that panel seems to be missing. How can I configure those settings in this version?
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How can I toggle the Fn (function) key?

Is there a way to toggle the Fn key? I'd like to be able to toggle it so I don't have to press Fn+F12 to raise the volume, for example. I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS on an Asus D550C.
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How do I remap the Caps Lock and Ctrl keys?

I'd like to remap my keys such that Ctrl behaves as the Caps Lock key and vice-versa. Also, if possible I'd like the settings to be available only within the currently logged-in user. How can I achieve this? I'm a vim user, unlike the other people…
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What is the difference between GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub

I'm troubleshooting a fn-key brightness control problem on my laptop, so I'm wading through a lot of config options in /etc/default/grub, as you can imagine. However, it's raised a question for me: What's the difference between the lines marked…
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Howto to move window to another monitor on the left/right using keyboard shortcut?

I have always used Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Left/Right to move windows from left to right monitors. Installed Ubuntu 18.04 last week (fresh install) and it appears that this is not working anymore despite the fact I had configured them like this in the…
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What does [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [e] do, while typing text?

I already knew that Ctrl+Shift+u would allow to type a character by giving its Unicode hexadecimal representation: an underlined u appears, you type the code and hit Enter. For example, Ctrl+Shift+u; e; 9; Enter gives the character é. Now I've just…
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Moving windows from the keyboard

Is it possible to move windows from the keyboard itself without touching the mouse? I know I can do a Alt + Left Click and drag the window, however I am hoping there is something I can use to move it from the keyboard without the mouse.
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How do I change keyboards from the command line?

How I change keyboard layouts from the command-line? For example, I want to switch from English to Hebrew. I'm able to do it from lightdm with the little icon in the corner of my screen.
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How do I remap the caps lock key?

In the the past I used to use xmodmap to prevent the Caps Lock button from working, and then tell Launchy to handle the key press instead. I can't seem to do this anymore. What is the best way to disable Caps Lock's normal behavior, and make it do…
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How to set custom keyboard shortcuts from terminal?

How to set custom keyboard shortcuts from terminal for different Linux versions? Basically I want to know where Linux stores the keyboard shortcut files and how it can be edited. On my research I found a file ~/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig but it…
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How can I reverse the 'fn' key on an Apple Keyboard so that F1, F2, F3... are used as default?

To be more clear, right now the volume and brightness keys are used and I have to hold Fn in order to execute an F1, F2, F3, F4, F5... command. Can I reverse this so it's function key by default and holding Fn enables the volume and other special…
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