No pipe symbol in Ubuntu 11.04 running in Windows 7 x64 VirtualBox
For some reason I cannot type a pipe(|) symbol with US keyboard in Ubuntu while I can do it in Windows 7 which also uses US keyboard. Normally I use left-shift with the button next to it to type a pipe symbol, but in Ubuntu it creates < and > with shift (like "shift+," and "shift+." are already doing).
I fixed this for my Dell keyboard by running
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
and selecting the most similar keyboard (SK-7100, I think - my actual keyboard is a SK-8165) and guessing sensible options for the other questions (in my case, UK layout, extended-winkeys, no compose).
This was for Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS 64-bit on VMWare 4.04, host: Windows 7 64-bit.
Try this
- Hold down the ALT key
- Enter 1,2,4 on the numeric keyboard (you might need to activate it via the Num Locktoggle key)
- Release the ALT key
Hope this helps
If you can’t type pipe (|) then change keyboard layout
command is : setxkbmap us
It's work for me