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user17738
Asked: 2012-04-13 11:59:20 +0800 CST

Permanently change keyboard layout

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I am using Xmonad and LXDE, so I don't want to use gnome-settings-daemon. But there is a problem - without it I cannot switch into or type in Cyrillics. I found some temporary solution - when I enter sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration and click through config menu, I end with right layout. But after I reboot system it disappears and I am forced to reconfigure it again. Is there a way to make this changes permanent?

keyboard keyboard-layout dpkg reboot gnome-settings-daemon

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Yes edit /etc/default/keyboard to set the global settings or ~/.dmrc for per-user settings.

    Example /etc/default/keyboard:

     XKBMODEL="pc105"
 XKBLAYOUT="fr,us"
 XKBVARIANT="oss"
 XKBOPTIONS="compose:ralt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

    Example ~/.dmrc:

     [Desktop]
 Language=de_DE.UTF-8   # change to your default lang
 Layout=de   nodeadkeys # change to your keyboard layout

    In either case, will need to also run:

     sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change
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