On Sunday 15 November 2015 21:46:23 Ric Moore wrote: > On 11/15/2015 04:34 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > On Sun, November 15, 2015 2:10 pm, David Christensen wrote: > >> I just did a fresh install of debian-8.2.0-amd64-xfce yesterday: > >> > >> Keyboard model Generic 105-key (Intl) PC > > > > Obviously, the keyboard settings menu (reached from xfce by > > > > applications -> setting -> keyboard -> layout > > > > has its own layout nomenclature. The only "English (US, ...)" selections > > which the menu on my system (i386, Jessie, Xfce) offers are: > >
> > English (US, international with dead keys) This one appears to be the "normal" "standard" US international. <quote> Dead keys on various keyboard layouts[edit] Main article: Keyboard layout A key may function as a dead key by default, and many non-English keyboard layouts in particular have dead keys directly on the keyboard. The basic US keyboard does not have any dead keys, but the US-International keyboard layout, available on Windows and the X Window System, places some dead keys directly on similar-looking punctuation marks. Old computer systems, such as the MSX, often had a special key labeled dead key, which in combination with the Ctrl and Shift keys could be used to add some of the diacritics commonly needed in the Western European languages (´, `, ˆ and ¨) to vowels that were typed subsequently. </quote> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=English+(US,+international+with+dead+keys), +layout&es_sm=93&biw=1156&bih=835&tbm=isch&imgil=0nPw4DKeEA8BAM%253A%253BKCWVRBoNfdDbvM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fapple.stackexchange.com%25252Fquestions%25252F30262%25252Fus-international-altgr-dead-keys-layout-on-mac-os-x&source=iu&pf=m&fir=0nPw4DKeEA8BAM%253A%252CKCWVRBoNfdDbvM%252C_&usg=__7-YA249zdN0UqeYtD4catm2jDSU%3D&ved=0CCgQyjdqFQoTCIesnKS4k8kCFcRaGgodWzEJMA&ei=HQJJVsepIMS1advipIAD#imgrc=VPY-rIKk-acQWM%3A&usg=__7-YA249zdN0UqeYtD4catm2jDSU%3D Lisi > > English (US, with euro on 5) > > > > none of which look familiar to me. So I wondered whether I had managed > > to delete whatever is the default English US layout. > > > > What I would like to know is the "English (US...)" options which the > > keyboard settings menu offers if the menu has not been used to switch > > from the default English US layout to some other layout. > > Mine says "Generic 105 (intl) PC" for keyboard model and "English (US)" > for layout. Hope that helps. That is the "system default" setting used > at install time. Ric