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    Changing the keyboard language in Rocky Linux 8

    During the installation of your Rocky Linux 8 VPS, you are given the option to set a keyboard language. You may however want to change it later, for example for a specific user. In this article, we show you how this works.

    • These steps only change the language in the VPS console. Do you use Putty or a terminal (Mac / Linux), for example? Then, the language of your client OS is used.
    • Use sudo or a root user when using the commands in this article

     

    Step 1

    Connect to your VPS using SSH or the VPS console.


     

    Step 2

    In Rocky Linux 8, you need to know which layouts / keymaps can be selected for changing the keyboard language. A complete overview can be found in the collapsible element below.

    available keyboard layouts

    ANSI-dvorak
    al
    al-plisi
    amiga-de
    amiga-us
    applkey
    at
    at-mac
    at-nodeadkeys
    at-sundeadkeys
    atari-de
    atari-se
    atari-uk-falcon
    atari-us
    az
    azerty
    ba
    ba-alternatequotes
    ba-unicode
    ba-unicodeus
    ba-us
    backspace
    bashkir
    be
    be-iso-alternate
    be-latin1
    be-nodeadkeys
    be-oss
    be-oss_latin9
    be-oss_sundeadkeys
    be-sundeadkeys
    be-wang
    bg-cp1251
    bg-cp855
    bg_bds-cp1251
    bg_bds-utf8
    bg_pho-cp1251
    bg_pho-utf8
    br
    br-abnt
    br-abnt2
    br-dvorak
    br-latin1-abnt2
    br-latin1-us
    br-nativo
    br-nativo-epo
    br-nativo-us
    br-nodeadkeys
    br-thinkpad
    by
    by-cp1251
    by-latin
    bywin-cp1251
    ca
    ca-eng
    ca-fr-dvorak
    ca-fr-legacy
    ca-multi
    ca-multix
    cf
    ch
    ch-de_mac
    ch-de_nodeadkeys
    ch-de_sundeadkeys
    ch-fr
    ch-fr_mac
    ch-fr_nodeadkeys
    ch-fr_sundeadkeys
    ch-legacy
    cm
    cm-azerty
    cm-dvorak
    cm-french
    cm-mmuock
    cm-qwerty
    cn
    cn-altgr-pinyin
    croat
    ctrl
    cz
    cz-bksl
    cz-cp1250
    cz-dvorak-ucw
    cz-lat2
    cz-lat2-prog
    cz-qwerty
    cz-qwerty_bksl
    cz-rus
    cz-us-qwertz
    de
    de-T3
    de-deadacute
    de-deadgraveacute
    de-deadtilde
    de-dsb
    de-dsb_qwertz
    de-dvorak
    de-latin1
    de-latin1-nodeadkeys
    de-mac
    de-mac_nodeadkeys
    de-mobii
    de-neo
    de-nodeadkeys
    de-qwerty
    de-ro
    de-ro_nodeadkeys
    de-sundeadkeys
    de-tr
    de_CH-latin1
    de_alt_UTF-8
    defkeymap
    defkeymap_V1.0
    dk
    dk-dvorak
    dk-latin1
    dk-mac
    dk-mac_nodeadkeys
    dk-nodeadkeys
    dk-winkeys
    dvorak
    dvorak-ca-fr
    dvorak-es
    dvorak-fr
    dvorak-l
    dvorak-r
    dvorak-ru
    dvorak-sv-a1
    dvorak-sv-a5
    dvorak-uk
    dz
    ee
    ee-dvorak
    ee-nodeadkeys
    ee-us
    emacs
    emacs2
    en-latin9
    epo
    epo-legacy
    es
    es-ast
    es-cat
    es-cp850
    es-deadtilde
    es-dvorak
    es-mac
    es-nodeadkeys
    es-olpc
    es-sundeadkeys
    es-winkeys
    et
    et-nodeadkeys
    euro
    euro1
    euro2
    fi
    fi-classic
    fi-das
    fi-latin1
    fi-latin9
    fi-mac
    fi-nodeadkeys
    fi-old
    fi-smi
    fi-winkeys
    fo
    fo-nodeadkeys
    fr
    fr-azerty
    fr-bepo
    fr-bepo_latin9
    fr-bre
    fr-dvorak
    fr-latin0
    fr-latin1
    fr-latin9
    fr-latin9_nodeadkeys
    fr-latin9_sundeadkeys
    fr-mac
    fr-nodeadkeys
    fr-oci
    fr-old
    fr-oss
    fr-oss_latin9
    fr-oss_nodeadkeys
    fr-oss_sundeadkeys
    fr-pc
    fr-sundeadkeys
    fr_CH
    fr_CH-latin1
    gb
    gb-colemak
    gb-dvorak
    gb-dvorakukp
    gb-extd
    gb-intl
    gb-mac
    gb-mac_intl
    ge
    ge-ergonomic
    ge-mess
    ge-ru
    gh
    gh-akan
    gh-avn
    gh-ewe
    gh-fula
    gh-ga
    gh-generic
    gh-gillbt
    gh-hausa
    gr
    gr-pc
    hr
    hr-alternatequotes
    hr-unicode
    hr-unicodeus
    hr-us
    hu
    hu-101_qwerty_comma_dead
    hu-101_qwerty_comma_nodead
    hu-101_qwerty_dot_dead
    hu-101_qwerty_dot_nodead
    hu-101_qwertz_comma_dead
    hu-101_qwertz_comma_nodead
    hu-101_qwertz_dot_dead
    hu-101_qwertz_dot_nodead
    hu-102_qwerty_comma_dead
    hu-102_qwerty_comma_nodead
    hu-102_qwerty_dot_dead
    hu-102_qwerty_dot_nodead
    hu-102_qwertz_comma_dead
    hu-102_qwertz_comma_nodead
    hu-102_qwertz_dot_dead
    hu-102_qwertz_dot_nodead
    hu-nodeadkeys
    hu-qwerty
    hu-standard
    hu101
    ie
    ie-CloGaelach
    ie-UnicodeExpert
    ie-ogam_is434
    il
    il-heb
    il-phonetic
    in-eng
    iq-ku
    iq-ku_alt
    iq-ku_ara
    iq-ku_f
    ir-ku
    ir-ku_alt
    ir-ku_ara
    ir-ku_f
    is
    is-Sundeadkeys
    is-dvorak
    is-latin1
    is-latin1-us
    is-mac
    is-mac_legacy
    is-nodeadkeys
    it
    it-geo
    it-ibm
    it-intl
    it-mac
    it-nodeadkeys
    it-scn
    it-us
    it-winkeys
    it2
    jp
    jp-OADG109A
    jp-dvorak
    jp-kana86
    jp106
    kazakh
    ke
    ke-kik
    keypad
    kr
    kr-kr104
    ky_alt_sh-UTF-8
    kyrgyz
    la-latin1
    latam
    latam-deadtilde
    latam-dvorak
    latam-nodeadkeys
    latam-sundeadkeys
    lk-us
    lt
    lt-ibm
    lt-lekp
    lt-lekpa
    lt-std
    lt-us
    lt.baltic
    lt.l4
    lv
    lv-adapted
    lv-apostrophe
    lv-ergonomic
    lv-fkey
    lv-modern
    lv-tilde
    ma-french
    mac-be
    mac-de-latin1
    mac-de-latin1-nodeadkeys
    mac-de_CH
    mac-dk-latin1
    mac-dvorak
    mac-es
    mac-euro
    mac-euro2
    mac-fi-latin1
    mac-fr
    mac-fr_CH-latin1
    mac-it
    mac-pl
    mac-pt-latin1
    mac-se
    mac-template
    mac-uk
    mac-us
    md
    md-gag
    me
    me-latinalternatequotes
    me-latinunicode
    me-latinunicodeyz
    me-latinyz
    mk
    mk-cp1251
    mk-utf
    mk0
    ml
    ml-fr-oss
    ml-us-intl
    ml-us-mac
    mm
    mt
    mt-us
    ng
    ng-hausa
    ng-igbo
    ng-yoruba
    nl
    nl-mac
    nl-std
    nl-sundeadkeys
    nl2
    no
    no-colemak
    no-dvorak
    no-latin1
    no-mac
    no-mac_nodeadkeys
    no-nodeadkeys
    no-smi
    no-smi_nodeadkeys
    no-winkeys
    pc110
    ph
    ph-capewell-dvorak
    ph-capewell-qwerf2k6
    ph-colemak
    ph-dvorak
    pl
    pl-csb
    pl-dvorak
    pl-dvorak_altquotes
    pl-dvorak_quotes
    pl-dvp
    pl-legacy
    pl-qwertz
    pl-szl
    pl1
    pl2
    pl3
    pl4
    pt
    pt-latin1
    pt-latin9
    pt-mac
    pt-mac_nodeadkeys
    pt-mac_sundeadkeys
    pt-nativo
    pt-nativo-epo
    pt-nativo-us
    pt-nodeadkeys
    pt-olpc
    pt-sundeadkeys
    ro
    ro-cedilla
    ro-std
    ro-std_cedilla
    ro-winkeys
    ro_std
    rs-latin
    rs-latinalternatequotes
    rs-latinunicode
    rs-latinunicodeyz
    rs-latinyz
    ru
    ru-cp1251
    ru-cv_latin
    ru-ms
    ru-yawerty
    ru1
    ru2
    ru3
    ru4
    ru_win
    ruwin_alt-CP1251
    ruwin_alt-KOI8-R
    ruwin_alt-UTF-8
    ruwin_alt_sh-UTF-8
    ruwin_cplk-CP1251
    ruwin_cplk-KOI8-R
    ruwin_cplk-UTF-8
    ruwin_ct_sh-CP1251
    ruwin_ct_sh-KOI8-R
    ruwin_ct_sh-UTF-8
    ruwin_ctrl-CP1251
    ruwin_ctrl-KOI8-R
    ruwin_ctrl-UTF-8
    se
    se-dvorak
    se-fi-ir209
    se-fi-lat6
    se-ir209
    se-lat6
    se-latin1
    se-mac
    se-nodeadkeys
    se-smi
    se-svdvorak
    se-us
    se-us_dvorak
    sg
    sg-latin1
    sg-latin1-lk450
    si
    si-alternatequotes
    si-us
    sk
    sk-bksl
    sk-prog-qwerty
    sk-prog-qwertz
    sk-qwerty
    sk-qwerty_bksl
    sk-qwertz
    slovene
    sr-cy
    sun-pl
    sun-pl-altgraph
    sundvorak
    sunkeymap
    sunt4-es
    sunt4-fi-latin1
    sunt4-no-latin1
    sunt5-cz-us
    sunt5-de-latin1
    sunt5-es
    sunt5-fi-latin1
    sunt5-fr-latin1
    sunt5-ru
    sunt5-uk
    sunt5-us-cz
    sunt6-uk
    sv-latin1
    sy-ku
    sy-ku_alt
    sy-ku_f
    tj_alt-UTF8
    tm
    tm-alt
    tr
    tr-alt
    tr-crh
    tr-crh_alt
    tr-crh_f
    tr-f
    tr-intl
    tr-ku
    tr-ku_alt
    tr-ku_f
    tr-sundeadkeys
    tr_f-latin5
    tr_q-latin5
    tralt
    trf
    trf-fgGIod
    trq
    ttwin_alt-UTF-8
    ttwin_cplk-UTF-8
    ttwin_ct_sh-UTF-8
    ttwin_ctrl-UTF-8
    tw
    tw-indigenous
    tw-saisiyat
    ua
    ua-cp1251
    ua-utf
    ua-utf-ws
    ua-ws
    uk
    unicode
    us
    us-acentos
    us-alt-intl
    us-altgr-intl
    us-colemak
    us-dvorak
    us-dvorak-alt-intl
    us-dvorak-classic
    us-dvorak-intl
    us-dvorak-l
    us-dvorak-r
    us-dvp
    us-euro
    us-hbs
    us-intl
    us-mac
    us-olpc2
    us-workman
    us-workman-intl
    uz-latin
    wangbe
    wangbe2
    windowkeys

    From command-line, you get a complete overview of available locales with the command:

    localectl list-keymaps

    Or, if you know the abbreviation of the language, you can search more specifically with the command:

    localectl list-keymaps | grep us

    Here, replace us with the abbreviation of the relevant language, e.g. nl, fr, de


     

    Step 3

    Then adjust the keyboard language with the command:

    localectl set-keymap keymapname

    Replace 'keymapname' with the abbreviation you chose in step 2. The change is automatically retained after a reboot.


     

    This concludes this tutorial on how to change your keyboard language in Rocky Linux 8.

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