Pi 2 Raspian @ on keyboard not working

Question

I have a Pi 2 running Raspian. It has USB keyboard attached. I have to use "shift +" to get @ sign.

How can I get the @ on the keyboard to work?

Answer 1

You need to reconfigure your keyboard layout. Use:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

To reconfigure it and follow instructions on screen. To use standard layout check us_US.UTF-8 locales.

Answer 2

You've probably have it set to a different country than you are used to. Execute the following in the command line:

sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard

Then, find where it says XKBLAYOUT=”gb” and change the gb (or anything else) to the two letter code for your country.

If you are from the US, it should read like so:

XKBLAYOUT=”us”

Save and exit: Ctrl+X, Y, Enter