Comments on: Change console keyboard layout in debian

By: Rolf

Rolf — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:01:13 +0000

Thanks!
I had a problem with my keys at the console. I had no pipe character (it produced a tilde instead – and the tilde produced an A followed by some form. Sometimes characters would refuse to be deleted from the command line!
All worked well within X, but not at the “proper” Linux console.
This command fixed the mapping, now I can have pipes! I wonder what I should do if my pipe character is broken. It’s a little ridiculous.
But there are still some minor problems with the “proper” linux console, namely in the presentation – weird, gibberish characters being used for ASCII table borders instead of the lines, for example. But the consequences are only cosmetic so far.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:32:41 +0000

In addition to the comment of djamu: It is necessary to restart the keyboard-service:


> dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
> service keyboard-setup restart

By: Marin

Marin — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:18:03 +0000

Thanks a lot! Just what i needed!

By: Kenji

Kenji — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 15:46:52 +0000

Thanks! It worked fine.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:35:45 +0000

Awesome dude, you saved some hours for me

By: gilberto dos santos alves

gilberto dos santos alves — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:31:42 +0000

this solve problems with grml.org layout that not come with br-abnt2.kmap.gz configured and we need locale with pt_BR-UTF-8 codepage for all characters and accents. we used dpkg-reconfigure console-data because we are using terminal only gnome nor kde is not installed. so use dpkg-reconfigure console-data and choose keyboard layout pc-105 keys and brazilian-abnt2 keyboard (that have cedilha accent).

By: Rombus

Rombus — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:22:29 +0000

Djamu command worked for me.
Thanks!

By: may

may — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 05:08:03 +0000

Kiitos! TÃ¤mÃ¤ pelasti pÃ¤ivÃ¤ni~

Thank you! This saved my day~

By: igor

igor — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:33:54 +0000

Thank you! Finally found someting that solved my problem!

By: Benoboy

Benoboy — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:10:17 +0000

Wel the “AT” symbol is my problem – not on my keys – so thx for helping me to the next step

Weel kinda got fixed (Apple keyboard I use) with ALT+LOGO+a

thx!