I'm a Linux newbie and I'm struggling with defining my keyboard setting. I googled and tried many solutions but didn't solve my problem. By system settings, I have Croatian keyboard but that isn't that keyboard, and I'm not sure is there any other way to find out what is the language my keyboard use for real?

I run Ubuntu on VMWare, maybe it's up to VMWare and not Ubuntu?

Thanks in advance!

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setxkbmap -print is not helpful in this case. I found a little tool ... very easy to compile

sudo apt-get install git
mkdir -p `~/src`
cd `~/src`
git clone
cd xkblayout-state
make

Now you can execute the command ./xkblayout-state to get the current layout, e.g.

./xkblayout-state print "%n"
German%

or list all layouts that are installed

./xkblayout-state print "%N"
German
English
English

^{In this case without a trailing %. I would have expected that, because I have not added a \n.}

Go to system settings> text entry and add the desired keyboard layout

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