Keyboard layout on the console

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Symptom:

This article gives some know-how and solutions for the following problems:

In the console

Cause:

During the installation or in YaST's administration menu , a different keyboard layout than the german keyboard layout was chosen. Possibly the KEYTABLE entry in the file /etc/rc.config was also changed.

When the tilde or other accents do not appear, it is probably due to that a keyboard layout with so called "dead keys" was chosen. On such keyboards, accents or tildes do not appear directly, but only if another sign was pressed afterwards. The tilde is then laid over e.g. the letter "n", that produces the letter "ñ".

In normal Linux operations, one does not need most of the times these diacritical marks, so it would be better if the "~" would appear right after pushing the tilde key.

Solution:

The keyboard layout is entered in the file /etc/rc.config in the variables KEYTABLE. In the system it is installed on the command
loadkeys <Path for keyboard layout file>
One finds the files with the different keyboard layouts in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables

All these files have the extension .map.


Keywords: KEYS, KEYBOARD, LATIN, DEADKEY, ACCENTS, TILDE

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