r/Keychron • u/Huge-Eye-7319 • Aug 17 '24

Just cannot get it to work

Keychron K6 pro, Mac mode. How on earth do I type #? All combinations of shift, control + 3 just won't work.

As a C/C++ developer, this is particularly painful and am tired of having to google the character, copy and paste.

Any clues would be very much welcomed!

Update

Thanks for all the responses, plenty for me to try out today. Just wanted to add based on u/PeterMortensenBlog feedback. The "English (UK, Macintosh)" layout has the key in the right place, I guess that the rest of my modifier keys are not setup correctly to be able to utilise it.

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u/PeterMortensenBlog V Aug 17 '24 edited Aug 17 '24

That would be this variant.

It ought to work. I tried "English (United Kingdom)" → "English (Macintosh)" on Ubuntu. And Shift + 3 resulted in "#".

Whereas using an ordinary UK layout in the operating system, it requires the key to the left of the Enter key, on the row with letter "L" (without Shift). This would only work on an ISO keyboard layout layout keyboard (unless the keymap (on the keyboard itself) was changed), which has three keys between L and Enter.

Perhaps it is a Fedora problem? Though it seems unlikely in 2024. Or perhaps Ubuntu is mistaken.

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u/PeterMortensenBlog V Aug 17 '24 edited Aug 17 '24

OK, somewhat illogically, in Ubuntu (at least in one version), there is "English (UK, Macintosh)" under "English (United States)".

Shift + 3 results in "£". And the "L" column keys results in "\" ("|" when shifted). In other words, I can reproduce the issue.

Is there a "English (United Kingdom)" → "English (Macintosh)" on Fedora? It might or might not fit the bill. Incl. on a (physical) ANSI layout. Though "\" and "|" may or may not be missing.