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localectl — Control the system locale and keyboard layout settings. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.o

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Problem

How to use the localectl command: Control the system locale and keyboard layout settings. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/localectl.html>.

Solution

localectl — Control the system locale and keyboard layout settings. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/localectl.html>.

Show the current settings of the system locale and keyboard mapping:

localectl

List available locales:

localectl list-locales

Set a system locale variable:

localectl set-locale {{LANG}}={{en_US.UTF-8}}

List available keymaps:

localectl list-keymaps

Set the system keyboard mapping for the console and X11:

localectl set-keymap {{us}}

Code Snippets

Show the current settings of the system locale and keyboard mapping

localectl

List available locales

localectl list-locales

Set a system locale variable

localectl set-locale {{LANG}}={{en_US.UTF-8}}

List available keymaps

localectl list-keymaps

Set the system keyboard mapping for the console and X11

localectl set-keymap {{us}}

Context

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