Changing default keyboard layout in Linux

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ckbcomp

ckbcomp(1)							   User Manuals 							ckbcomp(1)

NAME

       ckbcomp - compile a XKB keyboard description to a keymap suitable for loadkeys

SYNOPSIS

       ckbcomp [option ...] [layout [variant [option ...]]]

DESCRIPTION

       The ckbcomp keymap compiler converts a description of an XKB keymap into a console keymap that can be read directly by loadkeys.

OPTIONS

       -?, -help
	      Print a usage message and exit.

       -charmap  charmap
	      The encoding to use.  There should be an unicode ACM map for this encoding in /usr/share/consoletrans.

       -Idir  Search  top-level  directory  dir  for files included by the keymap description.	This option may be used multiple times.  After all
	      directories  specified  by  -I  options  have  been   searched,	/etc/console-setup/ckb,   /usr/share/X11/xkb,	/etc/X11/xkb   and
	      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb will be searched too.

       -v level
	      Set level of detail for listing.	level is a number from 1 to 10.

       -compact
	      Generate a compact keymap with at most two xkb groups and two levels in each or only one xkb-group and up to four levels.

XKB KEYBOARD DESCRIPTION

       The keyboard layout, variant and options components can be also specified directly on the command line.	See the synopsis of the command.

       -symbols name
	      Specifies the symbols component name of the XKB keyboard description.

       -keycodes name
	      Specifies the keycodes component name of the XKB keyboard description.

       -rules name
	      The name of the rules file to use.

       -model name
	      Specifies the keyboard model used to choose the component names.

       -layout name
	      Specifies the layout used to choose the component names.

       -variant name
	      Specifies the layout variant used to choose the component names.

       -option name
	      Adds an option used to choose component names.

SEE ALSO

       xkbcomp(1)

AUTHOR

       Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>, <zinoviev@debian.org>

console-setup							     MAY 2007								ckbcomp(1)

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