How do I change the default keyboard layout?

My default location is en_US but my keyboard is jp106.  I've grepped
various /etc files but I can't find where the keyboard is set on boot.

Thanks..

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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 05:48:18 -0700, Captain Dondo
<yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com> wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:

> How do I change the default keyboard layout?
>
> My default location is en_US but my keyboard is jp106.  I've grepped
> various /etc files but I can't find where the keyboard is set on boot.

The available keymaps are in /usr/share/keymaps/

The boottime keymap is in /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz

To change your default keymap, use

# dpkg-reconfigure console-data


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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:46:39 +0100, PJR wrote:

> The available keymaps are in /usr/share/keymaps/
>
> The boottime keymap is in /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
>
> To change your default keymap, use
>
> 	# dpkg-reconfigure console-data

Thanks, worked like a charm.

But of course, there's more:

I need to change keyboard layout from ja_JP to en_US to cs_CZ on occasion.
Being a recent convert from Fedora, I used a little widget called gkb...
Is there anything similar?

A greater question - what is the equivalent of 'yum provides [appname]'
for apt-get?  In other words, I can say 'yum provides gkb' and get a list
of packages that provide gkb....  How can I do that with apt-get/dpkg?

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On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:03:40 -0700, Captain Dondo
<yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com> wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:

> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:46:39 +0100, PJR wrote:
> 
>
> Thanks, worked like a charm.
>
> But of course, there's more:
>
> I need to change keyboard layout from ja_JP to en_US to cs_CZ on occasion.
> Being a recent convert from Fedora, I used a little widget called gkb...
> Is there anything similar?

loadkeys is the command-line tool. KDE provides an applet for
switching between internationalization configurations, and other
desktops or window-managers may provide something similar.

> A greater question - what is the equivalent of 'yum provides [appname]
'
> for apt-get?  In other words, I can say 'yum provides gkb' and get a list
> of packages that provide gkb....  How can I do that with apt-get/dpkg?

I'm not sure, but you could look at the man pages for apt-cache and
apt-file.


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