SETTING THE KEYBOARD LAYOUT IN X ________________________________________________________________________________ Using setxkbmap ________________________________________________________________________________ First, install setxkbmap: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ kiss b setxkbmap && kiss i setxkbmap | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Available layouts can be found in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ and set from the command line: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ setxkbmap latam | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Put the above command in ~/.xinitrc to load it whenever an X session is started. Exiting xorg configuration files ________________________________________________________________________________ Create 00-keyboard.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and edit the Xkb* options below to suit your needs. [0] +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Section "InputClass" | | Identifier "system-keyboard" | | MatchIsKeyboard "on" | | Option "XkbLayout" "de" | | Option "XkbModel" "pc105" | | Option "XkbVariant" ",qwertz" | | Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle" | | EndSection | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ References ________________________________________________________________________________ [0] https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/input/XKB-Config.html