ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 78, Issue 112

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 22:28 +0000, Björn Blöndal wrote:
> can't find @ on keyboard
> 
> I have Icelandic keyboard.... I have tried "Ctrl" "Alt" "Shift" but
> nothing works. All is working fine except getting the @ to work. I do
> not understand "AltGr" what is Gr?AltGr is a separate shift key - it's
> not Alt+Gr, it's "AltGr" :-)

If you have no key marked that way, try the key immediately to the right
of your space bar.

For "@", try that key plus the key with "Q" on it, and try pressing them
together and one after the other (AltGr first). Also try
Shift-Apostrophe (single quote).

One solution might be to use the "Character Palette" applet and either
a) use a non-Icelandic keyboard layout, obtaining Icelandic characters
from the Character Palette applet, or b) set up your own palette in the
Character Palette applet and cut and paste an "@"-symbol into it. It
would depend on which characters you use most as to which was the better
solution.

And of course you could just do an exhaustive test of all plausible key
combinations. If you have any kind of standard Icelandic layout, it will
be a two-key combination. Remember that left and right modifiers (like
shift, ctrl etc) can be treated differently - test with both separately.

Regards, K.

PS: Surely you are not the only person using an Icelandic layout? Can
you contact any Icelandic colleagues and compare notes?

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