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Changing Keyboard Layout on Raspberry Pi
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Change Keyboard Layout on Raspberry Pi
By default, the keyboard layout is set for UK on Raspbian OS, to set it to US following are the steps:
1. Launch Terminal
2. Open “/etc/default/keyboard” with nano (or any other editor).
sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard
The file should be like this:
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="gb"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""
BACKSPACE="guess"
3. Edit XKBLAYOUT line. "gb" needs to be changed to "us".
XKBLAYOUT="us"
4. Reboot
sudo reboot
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