Changing the Locale
You can change the locale if the default locale does not meet your requirements.
To find the locale, run the the localectl
command:
localectl
System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
VC Keymap: n/a
X11 Layout: n/a
To change the locale, choose the languages that you want from /usr/share/locale/locale.alias
, add them to /etc/locale-gen.conf
, and then regenerate the locale list by running the following command as root:
locale-gen.sh
Finally, run the following command to set the new locale, replacing the example (en_US.UTF-8
) with the locale that you require:
localectl set-locale LANG="de_CH.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="de_CH.UTF-8"
Changing the keyboard layout
See which keymaps are currently available on your system:
localectl list-keymaps
If the response to that command is the all-too-common Couldn't find any console keymaps
, install the key tables files and utilities:
tdnf install kbd
You should now be able to find a keymap matching your keyboard. As an example, here I’m searching for the German keyboard layout (so I’m expecting something with de
in the name) used in Switzerland:
localectl list-keymaps | grep de
...
de-latin1
de-latin1-nodeadkeys
de-mobii
de_CH-latin1
de_alt_UTF-8
...
de_CH-latin1
seems to be what we’re looking for, so change your current layout to that keymap:
localectl set-keymap de_CH-latin1
and confirm that the change has been made:
localectl
System Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
VC Keymap: de_CH-latin1
X11 Layout: n/a