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=== Easy Way ===

Latest revision as of 10:37, 25 October 2011

Sometimes an adopter will change the console keyboard layout. This can happen when a user changes their language, accidentally or intentionally.

You will need to find a keymap for different layouts. Wikipedia has an excellent article on this. Specific layouts are below.

Qwerty

Dvorak

Non Latin Scripts - i.e. Arabic, Greek, Russian etc.

East Asian Languages - i.e. Chinese, Japanese, Korean.

Klingon - Note : Graphic only.

Use the above layouts to determine how to type in the commands to reset the keyboard.


Ubuntu 10.04

Easy Way

  • Go to System - > Preferences -> Keyboard.
  • Click over to "Layouts". This will display the current keyboard layouts.
  • Click "Add"
  • Select the "By Country" tab, then under "Country" select "United States", and "Variants" select "USA".
  • Click "Add"
  • Select the old layout a click "Remove".

Less Easy Way

Instructions on how to change a keyboard layout via terminal are here.

Ubuntu 8.04

sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup