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Change keyboard layout in a Linux terminal

By admin, on August 18th, 2010

This is kind of a reminder for myself because I never remember this when I need it

To change the keyboard layout (e.g. to Spanish) in the Linux command line, type the following command:

# loadkey es

That’s all!

Alfred

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Hi:

I think that it’s loadkeys, not loadkey.

And I think that it doesn’t work when you boot basic Linux distros just in command line.

Bye
Tron

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In Puppy Linux loadkeys doesn’t work
Norman

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In Puppy Linux’s console it’s:

setxkbmap -layout es

More info:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=49614

In other distros:
http://www.howtoforge.com/changing-language-and-keyboard-layout-on-various-linux-distributions
Maths

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On Ubuntu server 11.04:

sudo loadkeys
Santos, Marcos

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Hi for using the command:
loadkeys
You may first install “console-tools” in terminal type:
sudo apt-get install console-tools
Mark Peveto

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You always have to use sudo before loadkeys. How can it be added to the .bashrc file so I don’t have to type it every time I log in the console?