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Changing UK Keyboard settings in Virtual Machines #5

Closed spurin closed 5 years ago

spurin commented 5 years ago

The virtual machines supplied with the lab enviroment are configured by default with a UK keyboard. To change the keyboard for a specific locale, follow the instructions below based on whether or not it is a centos or ubuntu installed system -

CentOS based Virtual Machines

Check the existing keyboard configuration with the command -

# localectl

Use the following command to search for available keymaps -

# localectl list-keymaps

Given the multitude of keymaps, you may wish to narrow the list down to a specific country, for example, for the US, you could use -

# localectl list-keymaps | grep ^us

Once you have identified a keymap, use the following command to set -

# localectl set-keymap us

Ubuntu based Virtual Machines

Use the configuration wizard to change the keyboard, by issuing the command

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
spurin commented 5 years ago

Issue also covered here - https://masteringansible.com/2019/03/10/Keyboard-Setup-for-Virtual-Machine-Lab/