[SOLVED] Setting keyboard layout to german

LukasH · 12-17-2012, 03:25 AM

Hello everyone,

I am using a Ubuntu 12.04 server edition and I experience the problem of having they keyboard layout in some US style, not in german style as I would like to have it.

So, what google told me was ofcourse the following:

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-data

That allows me to change the layout to a layout of my choice, but the changes do not remain permanent, after a reboot, it all switches back.

So, next, I found out that within

Code:

/etc/default/keyboard

one can define the layout - but I can't find out the exact values to switch my keyboard layout to german. Can anyone help?

Content of the keyboard file:

Code:

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="de" // I replaced "us" with "de" already, hope it's right
XKBVARIANT="alt-intl"
XKBOPTIONS=""

markush · 12-18-2012, 01:14 PM

I have no experience with Ubuntu, but it seems that you have changed the settings for the console but not for X11.

You should search for a directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ there should be a file which changes the keyboard in X11. In Slackware it is 90-keyboard-layout.conf and it's content is

Code:

...
Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "keyboard-all"
	MatchIsKeyboard "on"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
	Driver "evdev"
	Option "XkbLayout" "de"
	Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
	Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection
...

you should search if there is a similar file on your system and then change us to de

This link seems promising: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Spracheinstellungen

Markus

LukasH · 12-19-2012, 03:06 AM

Hey Markus,

not at all, because the Ubuntu Server is terminal-only. There is no GUI / any form of window system available, I am working completely from bash.

markush · 12-19-2012, 03:43 AM

Well, you can load the keyboard

Code:

loadkeys /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin-nodeadkeys.gz

or similar path. Put the code into a file which is always executed while booting.

There should be a variable LANG which you can set to de_DE.UTF8 in order to use UTF-8.

Here's our Slackdocs localizationpage: http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:localization it is generic enough in order to help even with Ubuntu.

Markus

LukasH · 12-19-2012, 03:44 AM

Okay, that helped a lot! Thank you!