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I have a fresh install of raspbian, and the keyboard is stuck on british. I saw some online tutorials for changing my keyboard settings, but they never seem to take effect. http://rohankapoor.com/2012/04/americanizing-the-raspberry-pi/

I have tried changing the locale, and reconfiguring the keyboard, using both the command line, and raspi-config. Neither is effective, and Im not sure why.

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Directly connected. I actually just got it. I'm reluctant to say "figured it out." but I logged out, and looked at the other login session options. The greeter was set to EN_US.UTF-8 There were 3 options, "default", "OpenBox", and "LXDE". LXDE was what I was using by default, anyway, so I was curious why the default wasn't LXDE in the greeter menu.

So I switched it, and logged in. then, I went to the LXDE language settings and saw that despite being English in the Default session, the LXDE session had them as GB. So I changed them in LXDE, and now both sessions are behaving as expected.

I have no understanding why this happened.

I want to note that prior to being fixed the environmental variable $LANG == en_US.UTF-8, I tried: raspi-config, dpkg-reconfigure locales, reconfiguring the keyboard in X11 (as a last-ditch effort), editing /etc/default/keyboard, dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration, with numerous shutdowns, reboots, to no avail.

Somewhere, there must be a session variable for language, that I had been missing. I logged back into the default session, and suddenly, it is changed there too.

This must be a glitch.

I guess the answer might be apply the changes, logout and log back in.

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