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Virtual keyboard activation
First thing to do:
Open terminal
Second you will need to update the repositories:
sudo apt-get update
An upgrade to the whole system isn't needed but it is recommended:
sudo apt-get upgrade
Now ...
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Multiple keyboard and input languages
There is a quick graphical way to change the keyboard layouts, the toggle key-combination and have a panel indicator at the same time.
Right click on the panel and choose Add/Remove Panel Items
Click ...
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Installing Raspbian from NOOBS without display
For a headless setup, SSH can be enabled by placing a file named ssh, without any extension, onto the boot partition of the SD card.
When the Pi boots, it looks for the ssh file. If it is found, SSH ...
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Installing Raspbian from NOOBS without display
The short answer is, make sure you download the offline install version of NOOBS,
then edit the file recovery.cmdline and add silentinstall on the end of the first line.
That will auto install ...
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How to map Caps Lock key to something useful?
In my case, Raspbian (jessie):
$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
...
$ sudo vi ~/.config/lxkeymap.cfg
option = ctrl:swapcaps
or
option = <something>,ctrl:...
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How to use a 4x4 keypad in Python?
I use pad4pi. It simplifies everything.
For more details you may want to see githubdemoproject.
from pad4pi import rpi_gpio
import time
# Setup Keypad
KEYPAD = [
["1","2","3","A"],
[...
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Enable SSH in NOOBS before install
You just need to add a file named 'ssh' to the noobs partition (you can do it right when copying fresh noobs files to a clean sd card) and it will enable ssh for raspbian when you install it from this ...
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How to install on screen keyboard in raspbian without a physical keyboard?
If you want to do this but can't connect your Pi to the internet via cable do this:
Open LibreOffice Writer
Insert - Special characters...
With mouse you can type your WiFi password
Turn on WiFi, ...
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Is it possible to produce a pipe "|" with a US keyboard and the vanilla Raspbian?
| = AltGr + Shift + `~
\ = AltGr + -_
One solution that I've found is to hold the AltGr key and press the `~ key. But I'm not sure if this would work for a normal "right alt" on a US keyboard. ...
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Multiple keyboard and input languages
try for Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.4 (stretch)
sudo nano /home/pi/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-pi/panels/panel
At the end of the file change to
Plugin {
type=xkb
Config {
Model=pc105
LayoutsList=us,...
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Installing Raspbian from NOOBS without display
I found this guide to be the most useful.
An important update in setup:
ssh is disabled by default on the newest images. You have to create a new file ssh in /boot (can be empty). E.g.
touch /...
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Open tty1 with another shortcut
If you are not in X and already at a virtual console, you do not need to use Ctrl and just Alt+F1 should work. If the keyboard issue is that it cannot handle 3 modifiers, this might help, but if the ...
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I changed my Raspberry Pi default keyboard settings. How can I reset this change?
Can you insert the SD card into another machine and mount the filesystem?
If so, edit /etc/default/keyboard and change XKBLAYOUT="in" back to your desired setting.
If needed, there's a list of valid ...
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I changed my Raspberry Pi default keyboard settings. How can I reset this change?
If you know the IP address you can ssh from another machine. Then use the raspi-config utility:
Open a terminal
Run raspi-config
Choose Localisation Options
Choose Change Keyboard Layout
Choose your ...
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Making input device for Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi has a header which contains many GPIO (General-Purpose I/O) pins that can be controlled directly from software on the Pi. These pins can be configured as outputs or as inputs (which ...
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How to type hash ('#') in the boot config
I found that pressing \ (backslash) key produces the # character which is sufficient to enable editing the config file. (Don't ask me how to type backslash...)
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How to install on screen keyboard in raspbian without a physical keyboard?
Another option I just used is to put the commands and password for WiFi in a text document on a USB drive. You can open the file and copy and paste as needed.
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How to make onscreen keyboard automatically pop up when entering input field
Florence virtual keyboard claims to have this feature (called "auto-hide mode"), which should work with modern applications implementing accessibility API (e.g. GTK+ and Qt 5):
For a system-wide ...
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Use Raspberry Pi as keyboard/mouse output to control server
Only the Raspberry Pi Zero , Zero W , Model A and Compute Module can act as USB device. Other models can not act as USB device. This is a hardware limitation which cannot be worked around in software.
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How can I put in the "@" sign on your Stack Exchange log In from a Raspberry Pi?
You have a UK English keyboard layout set on your RPi. From this site, you have two options.
Option 1
Run the command:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
Follow the prompts. Then ...
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Keyboard not working on Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
That type of converter just wires pins to pins. Legacy USB ports are able to notice that it's a PS/2 keyboard and change their behaviour.
The RPi USB port doesn't have the support for the PS/2 ...
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Can't get '~' using shift-` but shift-\ gives tilde
I had this problem a while back, your keyboard language is set to United Kingdom/British instead of USA/United States.
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Keyboard and mouse stops working after connecting usb hard drive
Just like most other issues with the Raspberry Pi, this is most likely a power issue.
Make sure you are using a short and thick USB cable. And a supply that provides at least 5V at 1A, but I highly ...
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Read keyboad input from background process
I think this link is probably what you are looking for.
Briefly, if your device works similar to the one mentioned in the link above, there should be a file created as /dev/???? when you plug it in, ...
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Change default en_GB to en_US (cannot type a pipe key)
I found this post which got me going:
https://rohankapoor.com/2012/04/americanizing-the-raspberry-pi/
I'm assuming this was written from an older version of Raspbian because there's a few differences ...
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Console login when password contains British Pound Sterling (£) character
To have a decent answer, here is it what the questioner posted in a comment:
I've resolved the problem by mounting the SD card on another computer, mounting the root filesystem, and deleting the ...
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What is the Raspberry Pi key for on the PI 400?
It's the "super key" or Windows key. As far as I'm away it's only purpose in the Raspberry Pi OS is to open the main menu (which also has a Raspberry Pi logo) which you can then navigate ...
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Installing Raspbian from NOOBS without display
The way I did this was as follows:
Remove power cable from the Pi and then take out the SD card.
Use a card reader (or built in one if your laptop has one) and the SD adapter to read the card on your ...
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how to skip NOOBS boot menu
Put the SD card in another machine: You should see the RECOVERY partition. Create the text file: autoboot.txt at the root level of this partition.
Note: Be careful in Windows that if you create a ...
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