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My Steam Deck arrived and I even got a setup for it. My problem rn is that my keyboard has an american layout but I need to type german umlaute sometimes...how do I do that?

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[-] okiloki@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago

If you use the keyboard for desktop mode:

  1. Open system settings
  2. Navigate to "Input Devices", "Keyboard"
  3. Go to the "Layout" tab
  4. "Configure Layouts", then "Add"
  5. Add "German (US)"
  6. Switch the layout on the "Taskbar" on the bottom right of the screen.

You can then use Umlaute like on any German keyboard, plus on the "a,U,o" keys themselves when you press AltGr (right alt). Any Sonderzeichen are like in the American layout. If you want to change that just use the normal German layout instead of German (US).

There is no way to change the layout of physical keyboards in the gaming mode. Those settings don't change anything in the gaming mode and but the gaming mode settings only work for the on screen keyboard.

Bonus Umlaut of the day: Ö

[-] neku@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago
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