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my keyboard has switched away from UK mode

Asked by David Sorrill

My kensington keybaord has switched layout modes in Ubuntu 14.04, so that "shift+2" gives me " rather than double quotes and "Shift+3" gives "<" rather than the wanted pound sign (which I cannot find anymore). I have a dual boot system and when in Windows 7 my keyboard is the normal UK layout with the ",@ & pound signs in the normal position. How do I re-load the correct keyboard layout in Ubuntu. This has only happened within the last week and I have no idea what triggered it except that I think it was after an otherwise normal ubuntu update.
Thanks
David.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Did you check the keyboard settings in settings? What Windows does or doesn't do is of zero consequence.

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David Sorrill (ndsorrill) said : 		#2

Yes. It keyboard settings highlighted English (UK) - which is what I expected it to be - but no change to the keys. Still more like US keyboard. I mentioned the Windows to show that it wasbn't anything to to do with the BIOS
David

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David Sorrill (ndsorrill) said : 		#3

After last entry went back to settings, used super+space to select the English (US), then used same method to select back to UK. This appears to have worked - at least for the time being. and I now have £££££, etc.
Thanks again Andrew - you prompted me to dig deeper.
David