us keyboard

[petrusbitbyter]

How to make the Pi using a us keyboard just after booting? I know how to change the keyboard map after startx but I also want to be able to type the vertical bar before startx.

petrus bitbyter

[AndyD]

Use the command:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

to reconfigure your keyboard. Choose English (US) for keyboard layout (second page of configuration). Then either reboot or

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invoke-rc.d keyboard-setup start

to reload the keymap.

[petrusbitbyter]

Thanks. Could find a solution though I suppose the structure of the reconfigure-keyboard utility has been changed. A simple English(us) could not be found anymore but I got a long list of several brands and at least two layers of sub-menus for further specifications. But as I said, I can find my way through it.

I use a Debian image btw

petrus bitbyter

[iby]

or just edit file

/etc/defaults/keyboard

and make it

XKBLAYOUT="us"

[OlivierLD]

The file to edit is actually

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/etc/default/keyboard

, no s at the end of default.

[DougieLawson]

sudo raspi-config has an option to set keyboard, locale & timezone.

[loverpi]

Raspbian for Americans
https://forum.loverpi.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=11