On Thu - 16 Jul 2020 14:42:06 Felmon Davis wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2020, William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > >> using the following provides no guidance; I need a generic German > >> keyboard. > >> > >> sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration > >> > >> I'm a bit encouraged by Mint but likely the machine goes back to the > >> store. I couldn't get Deepin. I'll try MX. > >> > >> f. > > > > Here's a crazy thought. Why not choose German - DE when installing, when > > asked to choose language? (I am thinking of the Devuan netinstall > > version, which is old-school Debian.) > > > > Then maybe you can deal with adding or changing language later. I am > > assuming that you read or speak German well enough for this. At least > > then you'll see if you have that character available, and if you can > > advance farther in the installation process. > > > > There are some keyboard mapping tricks you can do within Trinity (and > > probably other DEs, too), but you have to get it installed first. > > here's the problem or two: I don't mind choosing German but I am > hesitant to install because I may return the computer. I have to be > careful that Windows gets to set itself back to default in case I give > up and want to return it. > > and the Live boot didn't give me a language option (unless I > overlooked it). must be some boot tricks I can try but right now I'm > going to look at MX. > > Mint almost does the trick but again with installing, I may not get a > driver for the wifi and may not get a way to set up the Desktop.... a > lot of uncertainties. > > I would love to have '|'! You could install/use the character selector program as a temp measure Lou
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