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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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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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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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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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Raspberry Pi VNC no action from keyboard or mouse
I just found the answer to MY problem, and thought I should share. I am using the RealVnc that came pre-loaded on Jessie, and had the same issue. When starting the realVNC program, before connecting ...
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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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Has Anybody Built A Raspberry Pi Inside A Mouse Yet?
It can be done and it has been done. MagPi Magazine's 'Raspberry Pie Projects Book 2' features a gaming mouse with a built in zero running Quake III. You can download the book for free: https://www....
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How to map Caps Lock key to something useful?
tl;dr: it can be added through the GUI, in the Keyboard Layout Handler applet's settings.
Add the Keyboard Layout Handler applet to your panel:
Right click on panel > Panel Settings > Panel ...
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Bluetooth keyboard disconnect after few seconds
You should run diagnostic tools like btmon (and perhaps dmesg) in a terminal, reproduce the disconnect problem and analyse the logs to narrow the problem down.
Without the logs, one thing you can try ...
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Enable SSH in NOOBS before install
I don't think this is possible. This is only possible in Raspbian installation not in NOOBS as it requires at least a keyboard.
But if you really want a silent NOOBS installation to every Raspi you ...
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How to install on screen keyboard in raspbian without a physical keyboard?
I got it done by enabling vnc server in the pi, then connect to it using a client in my laptop. After that, I installed the keyboard in the pi.
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Login Using Touchscreen
I have the virtual keyboard working at the login screen.
The solution is to install the GDM3 display manager
The display manager is responsible for managing the user authentication screen. The Raspian ...
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Cannot set keyboard using raspi-config
Here it presents a long list of options in Cyrillic and Greek and non-English languages but nothing that looks appropriate for USA/English, or even anything that looks Western-European. Even under ...
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Supporting Wireless Keyboard
The eLinux Wiki lists USB keyboards that users have found to be compatible with the Pi. The MK220 is listed.
Other posts that may be relevant:
Will the RPi-4 work with a Logitech K830 keyboard?
Does ...
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How do I make Barrier run on startup?
If it doesn't already exist, create an autostart directory, e.g. mkdir ~/.config/autostart
Copy the .desktop file from /usr/share/applications, e.g. cp /usr/share/applications/barrier.desktop ~/....
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Disabling USB ports
Each USB host controller in Linux exposes a setting called authorized_default, which controls the state of any new connected devices. Setting it to 0 makes all new devices disabled by default:
for ...
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Disabling USB ports
sudo sh -c "echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/buspower"
Will disable the USB ports but also the LAN port.
sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/buspower"
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