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rated 0 times [ 6] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 49837 / 2 Years ago, tue, january 11, 2022, 2:54:34

Most of the time I use the US qwerty layout but from time to time I also have to use the German layout which is qwertz and it is very annoying.

How can I swap the Y and Z keys on the German layout?

The solution was at this link:
Custom Keyboard Layout in Ubuntu (or just Linux :) kindly provided by gertvdijk in his answer.

NB: In recent versions of Ubuntu you have to issue sudo dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data for the changes to take effect. See this answer.

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answered 2 Years ago rofity · Accepted Answer

I can now select German (qwerty) in the Unity desktop in 14.04:

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This gives me exactly what I want.

It is also possible to switch to this particular layout in the terminal:

setxkbmap -layout de -variant qwerty

There is absolutely no need to mess with the system's keyboard layout files!