Hello,

After installing Centos 7-64 I'm facing strange problem.
When I pressed <shift>-2 I'm getting: " and not @

This happens also with many other <shift> combinations.

When I tried it via SSH (to the same PC) it worked OK.

Can you help ?

Thank you,
Zvika

Open a terminal, type in

xev

xev is going to record your keystroke and print out the key values in your keyboard page that correspond to your keystroke
example:
KeyPress event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
root 0x2d7, subw 0x0, time 18192998, (183,236), root270,389),
state 0x11, keycode 11 (keysym 0x40, at), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (40) "@"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (40) "@"
XFilterEvent returns: False

This will tell us if your keyboards key page is wrong and then we can assume that's the problem or perhaps it's a setting in this infernal gnome malware they slathered all over the thing.... eh, I mean the desktop environment.

Did you select "English UK keyboard" during the install? (happened to me in the past!) IF so,
there seems to be a 'ton' of different ways to change to '...US...', from web-searching:
us UK English intitle:"Keyboard layout" centos install
Also search: xorg 00-keyboard.conf | systemd.localed | vconsole.conf

Try: [man] localectl (post the output of locatectl [with no switches/args])

Do you use a 'GUI'? Which? (my CentOS7 doesn't have xev installed) See: man -k keyboard

I welcome other LQ'ers input on this (I'm Newbie on this, &I don't use X...!)

I presume this is in the GUI, if SSH is OK? Just go to the keyboard configuration tool (system preferences) and switch from UK keyboard to USA.

Hello,

After reinstalling from scratch, it works fine.

Thank you for your help,
Z.V