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Howto change the keyboard layout in text mode on a linux-based operating system

Posted by Jimmy Huybrechts on Tuesday 21 June 2011 [16:28] Whenever you want to change the keyboard layout of the shell eg. terminal or ssh of a linux system you can do this in the following way:

Debian based distro's

You can find all the different keymaps in the following location: /usr/share/keymaps/i386/ or /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/ to change the keymap you can do the following:

loadkeys us

( if you want the united states international keymap )

Redhat based distro's

You can find all the different keymaps in the following location: /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386 to change the keymap you can do the following:

loadkeys us

( if you want the united states international keymap )

Shutdown and reboot

shutdown -h now
shutdown -r now

Copy files over ssh

scp [[user@]from-host:]source-file [[user@]to-host:][destination-file]

source

MC shell connection

cd #sh:yourusername@example.com:[port]/home/username/

source

Linux kernel version

uname -r
cat /proc/version
rpm -q kernel
dmesg | grep Linux
ls /boot