Italian keyboard layout broken after install on Asus T100 (works fine in Live mode)

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Hi everyone,

I just installed Zorin OS Lite on my Asus T100. Overall, things are working fairly well… it’s definitely giving this old device a new life.

That said, I’ve run into a very frustrating issue:

In Live Try mode, both the touchscreen and the Italian keyboard layout work perfectly. But once I install Zorin to the internal drive, things change:

  • The touchscreen becomes misaligned (clicks are offset from where I touch)
  • The keyboard layout is incorrect: several keys don’t match their labels (e.g. “p” types “*”, and other symbols are all over the place)

The weird thing is, I’m using exactly the same settings as in the live session:

Layout set to Italian, model set to Generic 105-key PC — just like in the live environment, but the key mapping is clearly different after install.

I don’t really care about the touchscreen issue, but the keyboard is too important. I’ve tried all the layout/variant/model options in the settings, but nothing has fixed it so far.

Has anyone experienced something similar ? I’m not an expert and maybe the solution is quite simple.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

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Hi and welcome. I'm hoping @Aravisian can assist as he is the Zorin Lite expert on the forum.

Just done a quick search using xubuntu 22.04 as search criteria as that is what Lite is based on, this via Brave A.I. search engine via mojeek:

Italian Keyboard Layout Issue

To resolve the issue of the Italian keyboard layout not holding after installing Xubuntu 22.04, you can follow these steps:

  1. Open the Keyboard application from the Applications menu.
  2. Select the Layout tab.
  3. Check the list of available keyboard layouts and ensure that the correct Italian layout (such as Italy US keyboard with Italian letters) is included and selected.

If the layout is not listed, you may need to add it by clicking the "+" button and selecting the appropriate layout from the list. After adding the layout, move it to the top of the list to set it as the default keyboard layout.

If the problem persists, you might need to check if there are any conflicting settings or if the layout is correctly configured in the system settings. Additionally, ensure that the keyboard layout is set correctly in the console by checking the GRUB settings and ensuring that the correct layout is set during boot.

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None of this looks related to Lite as a desktop, actually as none of these are XFCE components.

You can check locale with the terminal command

localectl status

Ensure it is set to Italian:

System Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
    VC Keymap: it
   X11 Layout: it

If you can relay the terminal output for

xinput list

we can look at your touchscreen misalignment.

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