I can no longer type backslash in Ubuntu on a Lenovo P50 with a UK keyboard after upgrading to 20.04 LTS
After recent updates, I can no longer select a keyboard layout that works for my machine.
I have a Lenovo P50 laptop with a UK keyboard. The backslash key is on the bottom left, next to the "z"; It's currently typing "<" instead of backslash.
For whatever reason, there is no longer an option to select a keyboard layout compatable with the Lenovo P50 UK keyboard --- there are several Lenovo thinkpad options, but none of them match this machine. An appropriate option was available prior to the upgrade to 20.04.
What I can I do to get backslash back?
> cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS"1 Answer
It seems like Ubuntu lost the UK language support during the upgrade, reverting instead to US English. This silently removed support for UK keyboard layouts. Here's what I did to fix things:
- Go to Control Center → Personal → Language Support
- Click "install/remove language" and add "UK English" as a language
- Drag "UK English" to the top of them menu
- Reboot
- Navigate to Control Center → Hardware → Keyboard
- Go to the "Layouts" tab
- Click "+ Add" and add UK English
- Remove US English
- Click "Reset to Defaults"
