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NAME

chkblayout — change the current keyboard layout

SYNOPSIS

chkblayout layout

chkblayout -l

DESCRIPTION

chkblayout changes the current keyboard layout. Changes do not persist across reboots. The keyboard layout applied on boot can be configured in /etc/kblayout (see kblayout(5)).
The options are as follows:
-l, --list
List out the keymaps installed on the system

FILES

/share/kblayout
Keyboard layouts.

EXIT STATUS

chkblayout will exit 0 on success and non-zero otherwise.

SEE ALSO

chvideomode(1), kblayout(5)
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