Hi All,
Not being a great fan of Unity Desktop, I decided to try adding Cinnamon 2.2 as per a link from Mark in another thread. This seemed to work fine and I quite like the look of the Cinnamon desktop, however I have come across a problem, quite likely of my own making as I have been “playing around” with the features of this desktop. When in Thunderbird Mail when I try to type an email address the keyboard wont let me use the @ key, it just shows up as, ’ or", but not @, anybody any suggestions as to what might have happened?
This is no big deal as I am only playing around with this and if necessary will uninstall the Cinnamon desktop.
Details: Dell Inspiron 6400 Laptop running 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04,
no problems with the keyboard when i am using the Unity Desktop as you can see from the characters displayed in this message.
Thanks very much Mark and Chem, you were correct Mark, the US (English) Layout was selected, God knows how I managed that, but that sort of silliness comes quite naturally to me. Anyway, glad to say that it is now sorted, managed to find my way through the Meno options, add English( UK) and delete the US version so now am able to use the @ key as per normal.
Its all a learning curve and though a bit frustrating when one does something stupid, it is still quite enjoyable as the learning process continues via help from you guys and putting things right.
Info - You may not have done anything, Cinnamon may store its keyboard layout in a different place than Unity, and it defaults to US until you change it.
