FC3 Swedish keyboard mapping incorrect, how to fix?

Jon Ingason Jon.Ingason at telia.com
Mon Jun 20 06:50:31 UTC 2005


Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:58:15 +0200, Bo Berglund
> <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 08:15:13 +0200, Bo Berglund
>><bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I am using a Swedish keyboard on FC3 and I just found out where I
>>>could change the key mappings to Swedish from the US mapping thta was
>>>used by FC3.
>>>But now I have discovered that the key mappings are incorrect!
>>>In fact there is no way I have found to enter characters like $ and \
>>>anymore. These foreign characters are mapped on a Swedish keyboard to
>>>the right hand Alt key plus 4 and + respecively. But when I use these
>>>combinations nothing happens!
>>>
>>>So how are you supposed to enter £ $ \ { } [ ] | @ in FC3 when you use
>>>a Swedish keyboard?
>>>I suppose this is a problem also for German key layouts where there
>>>are a lot of national characters on the main map.
>>
>>On the VirtualPC list I received advice that the VPC manager is
>>capturing the Right-Alt as a "Host key" which has functions to move
>>mouse control back to the host operating system among others.
>>Advice was to change this host key mapping to Right-Ctrl or similar.
>>I thought that I should mention it also here for any future thread
>>search.
>>
> 
> Except it did not cure the problem...
> Still no special characters!
> 
> Bo Berglund
> 

To change the mapping from US to Swedish keyboard:

Desktop -> System Setting -> Keyboard

Choose Swedish

If you want £ $ \ { } [ ] | @ you use Alt Gr and correponding key.
If you have Swedish keyboard, they should marked out in the keyboard.

-- Jon




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