Some keys do not produce the correct characters in Raspberry Pi

February 4, 2015 Leave a comment

I have a raspberry pi B+ with raspbian OS installed. In this set up, most of the keys were not producing the proper characters. Among the characters, ‘|’ was the character that I missed a lot, because I was not able to do any grep in the linux command line. I tried re-configuring the keyboard, but that didn’t helped me. Then I found the solution.

I changed the keyboard layout to US.

The command for doing the same is given below.

setxkbmap -layout us

If the above solution is not working, you can manually edit the following file and change the keyboard layout. Change the layout to US (use small letter).

/etc/default/keyboard

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About amalgjose
I am an Electrical Engineer by qualification, now I am working as a Software Architect. I am very much interested in Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical and now in Software fields. I like exploring things in these fields. I love travelling, long drives and music.

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