Howto change the keyboard layout in text mode on a linux-based operating system

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keyboard layout in text mode on a linux-based operating system

[edit] Steps

• for i386 systems, you can find the layouts in the directory

/usr/share/keymaps/i386/

or

/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/

• to change the keyboard layout to French, type :

loadkeys /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/azerty/fr.kmap.gz

• Note : some systems may have fr.map.gz instead of fr.kmap.gz
  
  
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