$ localectl list-keymaps | grep -i search_term To search for a keymap, use the following command, replacing search_term with the code for your language, country, or layout: dvorak for the Dvorak keyboard layout).įor a list of all the available keymaps, use the command:
Keyboard layouts: where the layout is not related to a particular country or language (e.g.uk for United Kingdom English, or us for United States English) a list of country codes can also be found in wikipedia:ISO 3166-1#Officially assigned code elements. Country codes: where variations of the same language are used in different countries (e.g.Language codes: where the language code is the same as its country code (e.g.The naming conventions of console keymaps are somewhat arbitrary, but usually they are based on: Usually one keymap file corresponds to one keyboard layout (the include statement can be used to share common parts and a keymap file can contain multiple layouts with some key combination used for switching). The keymap files are stored in the /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/ directory tree. Use localectl status to view the current keyboard configurations.
