localectl

Control the system locale and keyboard layout settings.

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• 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}

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