Linux – How to type the pipe symbol on a Swedish keyboard

You can use The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, MSKLC, to define the keyboard settings you like, either by editing a standard layout (e.g., Spanish or US) or—usually better—by creating a new layout based on an existing one. You can then switch between layouts with some short key combinations.

It takes about ten minutes to learn to use MSKLC, and then you can easily tune a layout to contain the characters that you need frequently. And you can decide which combinations you use, so that they are easy to remember, like AltGr A for @, AltGr R for ®, etc.

Looking for a picture of an HP ProBook 430 which showed a keyboard large enough to read the keys well, I found this image:

It shows an Fn key between the Ctrl key (actually called Strg in this picture, since the picture shows a German version) and the Start ("Windows" logo) key. Hold that down, and then the picture shown indicates M, J, U, 7 correspond to Numpad 0, 1, 4, and 7. So, there is a way to use a Numpad by holding down Fn.

Try holding down Alt and pressing 0128 on the numpad. So, to do that on this computer, hold down Alt, then hold down Fn, and press M. Then, release Fn and hold down Fn again, and press J. Then, release Fn and hold down Fn again, and press K. Then, release Fn, and hold down Fn again, and press 8. Then release Fn. Finally, release Alt. (Yes, you should hold Alt down the entire time.)

If that works well, you may wish to try again by just holding Alt, holding Fn, and typing MJK8 (without needing to keep releasing Fn), and then just release Fn and then Alt in the end.