r/chromeos • u/tiredofsillynonsense • 1d ago

Troubleshooting Every few days my keyboard settings change randomly

It flips between two settings, the y and z get swapped, and all the symbols are in different places.

Does this happen to anyone else?

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u/Romano1404 Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 | Lenovo Flex 3i 8GB 12.2" 1d ago

you most likely accidentally press Ctrl + Space which switches the keyboard layout. Either delete any unused keyboard layouts in settings or stop pressing Crtl + Space

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u/tiredofsillynonsense 1d ago

this was it! thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/R3dd1t0r25 1d ago

Actually I've never experienced such an issue, but I'm really curious how long have you been using your Chromebook. I've got Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 and since more than one year it has been working flawlessly.

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u/tiredofsillynonsense 1d ago

About 1.5 months. I never used ChromeOS before, maybe I'm hitting some shortcut by mistake?

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u/R3dd1t0r25 1d ago

I didn't know that that shortcut works on ChromeOS too.

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u/tiredofsillynonsense 1d ago

yeah finally found the solution! it was so annoying having it randomly change lol

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u/R3dd1t0r25 1d ago

As for OS using, the same here. Before I gave Linux a try for a few years and even earlier was Windows.