Slax 5.1.8 - How to change keyboard layout at command line

uncle-c · 11-07-2006, 06:05 AM

Hi,
I've just ran and tested the Slax Live CD and what an excellent live distro it is ! Now by default it gets you into Run level 3 , command line. As I use an English keyboard what command should I use to map correctly. When ever I try to use the "|" charcter I get ">" etc due to incorrect country codes. Is "loadkeys" the answer ?

Thanks !

Uncle

theoffset · 11-07-2006, 07:53 AM

Checkout

Code:

man loadkeys

I for example, use

Code:

loadkeys la-latin1.map

It will load la-latin1.map.gz in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ and change my layout to a latinamerican one.

uncle-c · 11-09-2006, 04:32 AM

Thanks theoffset. Problem solved.

Noorlatif · 07-14-2021, 02:37 PM

Because this is a popular post when searching for "slax keyboard", "slax change keyboard layout" or similar.
Here is how to change keyboard layout on newer Slax versions:

Code:

setxkbmap se

replace se with your own keyboard code
se, in this case, stands for swedish

Tested on Slax version 9.11.0

Noorlatif · 07-14-2021, 02:38 PM

You can find the keyboard code in /etc/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
or from the list here:
https://www.slax.org/blog/19525-Inte...-for-Slax.html

locale keyb Language
ar ara Arabic
bg bg Bulgarian
bs ba Bosnian
ca ad Catalan
ca@valencia ad Catalan (Valencian)
cs cz Czech
da dk Danish
de de German
el gr Greek
en_GB gb English (UK)
es es Spanish
et ee Estonian
eu es Basque
fa ir Farsi
fi fi Finnish
fr fr French
ga ie Irish
gl es Galician
he il Hebrew
hr hr Croatian
hu hu Hungarian
ia en Interlingua
id in Indonesian
is is Icelandic
it it Italian
ja jp Japanese
kk kz Kazakh
km kh Khmer
ko kr Korean
lt lt Lithuanian
lv lv Latvian
nb no Norwegian (Bokmaal)
nds de Low Saxon
nl nl Dutch
nn no Norwegian (Nynorsk)
pa in Punjabi
pl pl Polish
pt pt Portuguese
pt_BR br Brazilian Portuguese
ro ro Romanian
ru ru Russian
si lk Sinhala
sk sk Slovak
sl si Slovenian
sr rs Serbian
sv se Swedish
tg tj Tajik
th th Thai
tr tr Turkish
ug ara Uyghur
uk ua Ukrainian
vi vn Vietnamese
wa fr Walloon
zh_CN cn Simplified Chinese
zh_TW cn Chinese

Alien Bob · 07-14-2021, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noorlatif

Because this is a popular post when searching for "slax keyboard", "slax change keyboard layout" or similar.
Here is how to change keyboard layout on newer Slax versions:

Code:

setxkbmap se

replace se with your own keyboard code
se, in this case, stands for swedish

Tested on Slax version 9.11.0

Irrelevant necro-posting, great as a first post Noorlatif.
And SLAX is not even based on Slackware anymore, it is a debian derivative nowadays, so please post your feedback on their forum instead of here.

igadoter · 07-14-2021, 03:46 PM

OP don't even know what system is running.