localectl
Control the system locale and keyboard layout settings. More information: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/localectl.html.
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Show the current settings of the system locale and keyboard mapping:
localectl -
List available locales:
localectl list-locales -
Set a system locale variable:
localectl set-locale {{LANG}}={{en_US.UTF-8}} -
List available keymaps:
localectl list-keymaps -
Set the system keyboard mapping for the console and X11:
localectl set-keymap {{us}}
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