Iam new to linux and have installed Mint on an Asus tower.
The keyboard is essentially designed for windows and the only problem I have is the , and . are in the wrong position ( you have to press , for . and vice versa). How can I correct this

Sounds like a locality error.

what did you give as your keyboard locality?
- USA is the default - are you using a UK keyboard?

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It's a good idea to put your location in your profile. What do you get in you enter these commands in the terminal emulator?
locale
setxkbmap -print

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The replys I have as below
LANG=C
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ALL=
robert@robert-A7N8X-X ~ $ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc+gb+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
};
robert@rob

Just checked the keyboard on my windows computer - EMBARRASSING
Looks like the problem is with this keyboard as the ., are reversed there
Oh well just get some tipex out modify.Good old EBay!!!!!!
Thanx for your help Robert