How do I know which keyboard layout to use?
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- Click Start.
- On the Keyboards and Language tab, click Change keyboards.
- Click Add.
- Expand the language that you want.
- Expand Keyboard list, click to select the Canadian French check box, and then click OK.
- In the options, click View Layout to compare the layout with the actual keyboard.
How can I check keyboard language in Linux?
Ubuntu – How to get keyboard layout (language) in terminal (console, command-line)
- localectl ( status ) etc.
- cat /etc/default/locale.
- cat /etc/default/keyboard.
- setxkbmap -query.
- gsettings …
- setxkbmap -print | grep xkb_symbols ( setxkbmap -v | awk -F “+” ‘/symbols/ {print $2}’ )
How does the setxkbmap command map the keyboard?
The setxkbmap command maps the keyboard to use the layout determined by the options specified on the command line. An XKB keymap is constructed from a number of components which are compiled only as needed.
Why is my XKB not specifying a keyboard map?
If you have an Xserver and a client shell running on different computers and some XKB configuration files on those machines are different, you can get problems specifying a keyboard map by model, layout, and options names.
How to list all valid XKB layouts, variants and toggle?
Try looking in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols as described on the setxkbmap man page. The options can be found in various files, try doing a grep -rinH alts_toggle /usr/share/X11/xkb. /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.xml looks like a good choice. Take a look at localectl, especially following options:
How to get a list of all KBD layouts?
Also about the layout toggle options, is there a way to retrieve a list of all available choices (e.g. grp:shift_caps_toggle .) I retrieve the list of my current ones, but I need the whole list of options. which provides all the info to the command line. Try looking in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols as described on the setxkbmap man page.