Changing the keyboard layout

Having problems finding characters like - / \ after installing Ubuntu? Ubuntu assumes that you have en English/US keyboard layout as default and all the special characters may then be hard to locate. Instructions for how to change the layout to Danish (or whatever keyboard you use) can be found in the Ubuntu tutorial on the second to last page.

In some cases, however, the keyboard doesn't respond after changing the layout. Clicking the 'Dan' top right in the menu bar a couple of times may fix this.

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- Birger

Veeeeery slow installation - don't give up...

Is the Ubuntu install impossibly slow on your USB stick? Maybe it is worth not giving up: Edda's stick took 6+ hours to finish the installation (well, actually we don't know exactly how long as we left for the weekend) - but it finished at the end, and was Monday morning running Ubuntu without problems.

So if you have your own PC at home you might wanna try to let it run the installation over night...

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- Birger

Don't give up

Welcome to the UCHFall2010 blog

Dear ALl,

Welcome to the UCH Fall 2010 blog. This is meant as a forum for discussing mainly technical matters concerning Ubuntu and the lab session. The idea is that you can post your problems her and hopefully get help from your fellow students before we get time to answer.

Please DO NOT post any passwords etc to the blog as it is public.

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- Birger and Toine