How do I change keyboard keys configuration on Ubuntu 20.04?

gnome keyboard 20.04 keys

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An advanced option like this is not available in the pre-installed Settings application, you need to use (GNOME) Tweaks. First install it by running the following command in Terminal (you would have to enable the universe repo first if it's disabled):

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

Then launch it and you would find the option under Keyboard & Mouse > Additional Layout Options:

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Albert Català

Ruby on Rails backend developer at Kantox. And before this in Rakuten TV. I also worked as a fullstack developer with Ruby on Rails at Elsevier, and before that I developed in Visual Foxpro.

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Albert Català over 1 year

I had Ubuntu MATE 18.04, and I could change keys like "Ctrl is mapped to Win and usual Ctrl keys", or "Alt is mapped to Right Win...", those options for me were very useful, that let me adapt keyboards of different laptops to have similar functionality.

This was an example in Ubuntu 18.04, MATE desktop:

Now I have Ubuntu 20.04 with GNOME desktop, but I can't find any system-options to configure these "keyboard keys distribution".

Is there any way to change it in GNOME desktop?