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recently purchased an Acer Aspire One (AAO) in the U.S. and installed the new version of Ubuntu Netbook Remix (9.04 Jaunty Jackalope). One of the first issues that I raised was in relation to the keyboard configuration. The keyboard of my AAO has the distribution of English (USA). For this reason, it has the key to the ñ (ñ), nor for the tilde (') or for open-sign-of-exclamation point () or open-sign-of-question mark (?). A solution to the problem is to change the keyboard layout to one that allows us to access these characters without unconfigure the rest (because otherwise we would have to learn a "virtual" keyboard that does not coincide with the keys you're seeing).

The configuration I propose is:

USA International (with dead keys AltGr)

Now, step by step, how to configure the keyboard:

Go to the Keyboard Preferences (System Menu> Preferences> Keyboard)

Open the tab "distributions"

Opens the "Choose a distribution" by clicking on the "Add ..."

1. In the first drop-down (Country) select United States in the second (variants) selected U.S. International (with dead keys AltGr). Click the Add button.
4. Click to enlarge and see the extra characters
Before closing the window "Keyboard preferences" remember to select the new layout as default.

5. From now on, holding down the AltGr key can access a range of secondary characters. For example, all vowels become vocal if we keep AltGr branded. (For those who are too used to pressing the tilde before the vowel, can use mix AltGr + '(single quote)). Also ñ (ñ) appears when you press AltGr + n. The opening of exclamation marks and question the find with their respective pair. For example, open-sign-of-question mark (?) Is accomplished by pressing AltGr +? and open-sign-of-exclamation point () is obtained with AltGr + (Shift + 1) (Shift + 1 as equal to the closing sign).
As extra information, English quotes ("") are obtained with AltGr + [y AltGr +], respectively.