Console keyboard layout

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.

Hint: Make sure you know how to type in your password first.

10.04

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

Ubuntu 8.04

sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup