[plug] Laptop keymap issue.

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 7/20/06, Shayne O'Neill <shayneo at bestflights.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hey guys, Just rejoined the list, new job all that.
>
> I've got a new lappie, well a few months. Its got Ubuntu on it, and I've
> got a slight issue.
>
> It's a NEC Versa E2000, running Ubuntu (Warty Warthog. I'll move to
> dapper one day), and its all good except for one *vexatious* little
> problem
>
> My Keyboard has a key in the corner that has a | and a \. Problem is its
> mapped as a < and a > .
>
> For the life of me I cant work out how to remap it, the worst part being
> is theres no other way to put those two, rather important characters in.
>
> Can anyone point me where I ought be looking?
>
>
> Shayne  O'Neill
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I had this problem a while ago -- someone set their keymap to british.

Stolen from <http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36>

apt-get install console-data console-tools debconf
dpkg-reconfigure console-data


Tomasz