Changing keyboard layout

By default you may find that the keyboard layout that the eee expects is not what appears on your keyboard. At first you probably won't notice much of a difference until you want to type @, | or £ or and you find that a different character appears.

In Easy Mode, you change the Keyboard in the Settings tab, by clicking on the Personalization icon. Select the appropriate layout under Keyboard layout:.

See Mapping Keyboard Shortcuts in Easy Mode

In Advanced Mode the default keyboard layout is set to the US. These instructions inform KDE to use a different layout; for example the UK.

• Launch / Control Centre / Control Centre, and select Peripheral Devices / Keyboard Layout
• Under Available layouts select your country then click Add ».
• Change layout variant to eeepc.
• Click Apply.
• Under Active layouts select U.S. English then click Remove.
• Click Apply.

See Mapping Keyboard Shortcuts in Advanced Mode

Dvorak Keyboard mapping http://wiki.eeeuser.com/dvorak_keyboard

For some reason, on most EEEs UK English spellcheckers (and only UK English) can't be installed onto OpenOffice the normal way. If you need to install a UK English spellchecker, look here:- Adding a UK English Dictionary to OpenOffice