When I installed jaunty ( a few months ago now) about the only thing I
had to do was press a few keys to ID the keyboard. All worked
brilliantly well.

The other day, my UK keyboard on my XP box started playing up
(sticking keys) - so I have a US keyboard to hand and thought I
replace it with that (I can just about handle swapped " and @ and $
for £). Talk about abysmal. The nonsense I had to go through to get
it to work... (Yes I know this is XP). The control Panel to set this
up is of course *Not* the keyboard icon (well what reasonable person
would expect to use the keyboard icon to configure a keyboard).
Naturally it is all done in "Regional and Language". Ok ok - once I
know that - click away at the unintuitive options etc. - and totally
screw up the situation to the point that (by following the
instructions) I was unable to login (har har). The ubiquitous windroid
reboot thankfully fixed it - but not only was the keyboard mapping
incorrect (some of it was right!), but I started getting dialogue
error msg's in some ****** script - probably used by Martians. None
of the keyboard settings would "stick"... sigh. I actually like XP and
think it is probably the best M$ have come up with - but this was
pathetic

At last my questinn! I wonder what would happen if I need to change
the keyboard on this jaunty box? Would the OS be as kind as it was at
install time?

What if I wanted to replace the ps/2 keyboard I have there now with a
usb one? Is that also an easy thing to?

I'd just like to know in advance -as one does :-)
thanks

dave wrote:

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> At last my questinn! I wonder what would happen if I need to change
> the keyboard on this jaunty box? Would the OS be as kind as it was at
> install time?

Assuming you mean UK>USA, well, I had a quick look and (assuming you are
using Gnome) you go to System>Preferences>Keyboard and click the
layout tab. This is with Karmic.

> What if I wanted to replace the ps/2 keyboard I have there now with a
> usb one? Is that also an easy thing to?

I've done it dozens of times when I need a USB keyboard or a ps/2
keyboard, just plug it in. From memory I think with ps/2 you may need
to restart the PC, but USB is hot-swappable.

> I'd just like to know in advance -as one does :-)
> thanks

In fact, I have 2 USB keybaords plugged into this machine right now and
they both work.

MCR wrote:

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> In fact, I have 2 USB keybaords plugged into this machine right now and
> they both work.

May I ask why?

M

M wrote:

> MCR wrote:
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>>
>> In fact, I have 2 USB keybaords plugged into this machine right now and
>> they both work.
>
> May I ask why?
>
> M

I am fault testing my wireless keyboard which even with new batteries
doesnt recognise every key press. I wanted to rule out software issues,
so I plugged another USB keyboard in and it worked.

The wireless keyboard is because the machine is my PVR as well as my
computer and is plugged into an 84" projector as well as a 28" TV.
Trailing a keyboard wire across the floor is messy and its odd with my
wireless mouse.

Anyone contemplating using Linux as a media hub, I recommend it.

M <m> wrote in news:h866b1$pkq$1:

> MCR wrote:
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>>
>> In fact, I have 2 USB keybaords plugged into this machine right now and
>> they both work.
>
> May I ask why?
>
> M

C'mon - you don't have separate left hand and right hand keyboards??? Get
with it! :)

On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:07:57 +0000, TheChris wrote:

> M <m> wrote in news:h866b1$pkq$1:
>
>> MCR wrote:
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>>
>>> In fact, I have 2 USB keybaords plugged into this machine right now
>>> and they both work.
>>
>> May I ask why?
>>
>> M
>
> C'mon - you don't have separate left hand and right hand keyboards???
> Get with it! :)

I use one for uppercase and one for lowercase. That way I don't have to
mess with that pesky "shift" key!

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>> C'mon - you don't have separate left hand and right hand keyboards???
>> Get with it! :)
>
> I use one for uppercase and one for lowercase. That way I don't have to
> mess with that pesky "shift" key!

Don't tell everyone or they'll all be copying us ;)

On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:28:22 +0000, MCR wrote:

> pbj wrote:
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>>> C'mon - you don't have separate left hand and right hand keyboards???
>>> Get with it! :)
>>
>> I use one for uppercase and one for lowercase. That way I don't have to
>> mess with that pesky "shift" key!
>
> Don't tell everyone or they'll all be copying us ;)

Heck, you ought to see my Emacs setup... <g>

pbj wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:07:57 +0000, TheChris wrote:
>>
> I use one for uppercase and one for lowercase. That way I don't have to
> mess with that pesky "shift" key!
>


I use one of mine for touch typing, and the other for hunt-and-peck. ;-)

John F. Morse wrote:

> pbj wrote:
>> I use one of mine for touch typing, and the other for hunt-and-peck. ;-)

Then there's the Apple Wheel with no keyboard at all!

[url down]

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Enkidu wrote:

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> Then there's the Apple Wheel with no keyboard at all!
>
> [..]

Funnily enough, my son was talking about that article yesterday, he
knew it was a joke, but he asked me if they really built a prototype =)

Enkidu wrote:

> [..]

Up until now, I had not seen or heard that The Onion had video.

The similarities between that and Fox er... News are frightening.

The next story was a "scandal" about the Weather Channel having a "pro
weather bias"

High quality production, too. I like it.