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I've never used linux before, so this may be a problem with that, but I'm trying to simply SSH into my friends webserver using the info he gave me. I looked up that the linux command to ssh is ssh username@hostname. I'm not trying to type that into LXTerminal but everytime I hold shift and hit the number two I don't get @ I get ". Any ideas?

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The @ is mapped to the " key in the UK. – Jivings♦ Jul 13 '12 at 21:46
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By the way, I know this is probably irrelevent, but if you can't be bothered to do the remapping described below, you'll probably find that Shift+' will give @ (the key next to ;) If I guess correctly, this is the combination that normally would give you " – ACarter Jul 14 '12 at 13:04
Thank you for the keyboard combo "shift + apostrophe" to make @ symbol. It does work! I could not put my email address in the Netflix membership sign in. Appreciate it! Other than that, the Raspberry Pi is a great learning experience! – user3392 Nov 22 '12 at 4:23

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You need to remap your keyboard. By default it is set to a UK map.

at the command line type:

sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard

and hit enter. locate the following line

XKBLAYOUT=”gb”

Change the gb to us (This assumes you want a us mapping, if not replace the gb with the two letter code for your country)

and reboot your machine.

if it pauses for a long time during the keyboard mapping stage, enter the following at the command line:

sudo setupcon

Your next reboot should be much faster.

Reference:

http://elinux.org/index.php?title=R-Pi_Troubleshooting&oldid=147362#Re-mapping_the_keyboard_with_Debian_Squeeze

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Steve's answer, though correct at the time, is now somewhat out of date. In Raspbian:

sudo raspi-config

and go to the configure_keyboard section. You can choose the correct keyboard type and layout from there.

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