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6 localectl - Control the system locale and keyboard layout settings
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9 localectl [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND}
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12 localectl may be used to query and change the system locale and
13 keyboard layout settings. It communicates with systemd-localed(8) to
14 modify files such as /etc/locale.conf and /etc/vconsole.conf.
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16 The system locale controls the language settings of system services and
17 of the UI before the user logs in, such as the display manager, as well
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20 The keyboard settings control the keyboard layout used on the text
21 console and of the graphical UI before the user logs in, such as the
22 display manager, as well as the default for users after login.
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24 Note that the changes performed using this tool might require the
25 initramfs to be rebuilt to take effect during early system boot. The
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28 Note that systemd-firstboot(1) may be used to initialize the system
29 locale for mounted (but not booted) system images.
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34 --no-ask-password
35 Do not query the user for authentication for privileged operations.
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37 --no-convert
38 If set-keymap or set-x11-keymap is invoked and this option is
39 passed, then the keymap will not be converted from the console to
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42 -H, --host=
43 Execute the operation remotely. Specify a hostname, or a username
44 and hostname separated by "@", to connect to. The hostname may
45 optionally be suffixed by a container name, separated by ":", which
46 connects directly to a specific container on the specified host.
47 This will use SSH to talk to the remote machine manager instance.
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51 Execute operation on a local container. Specify a container name to
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67 Show current settings of the system locale and keyboard mapping. If
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70 set-locale LOCALE, set-locale VARIABLE=LOCALE...
71 Set the system locale. This takes one locale such as "en_US.UTF-8",
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74 name is provided, then "LANG=" locale variable will be set. See
75 locale(7) for details on the available settings and their meanings.
76 Use list-locales for a list of available locales (see below).
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79 List available locales useful for configuration with set-locale.
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82 Set the system keyboard mapping for the console and X11. This takes
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84 define a toggle keyboard mapping. Unless --no-convert is passed,
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86 mapping of X11, after converting it to the closest matching X11
87 keyboard mapping. Use list-keymaps for a list of available keyboard
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91 List available keyboard mappings for the console, useful for
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95 Set the system default keyboard mapping for X11 and the virtual
96 console. This takes a keyboard mapping name (such as "de" or "us"),
97 and possibly a model, variant, and options, see kbd(4) for details.
98 Unless --no-convert is passed, the selected setting is also applied
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103 list-x11-keymap-variants [LAYOUT], list-x11-keymap-options
104 List available X11 keymap models, layouts, variants and options,
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106 list-x11-keymap-variants optionally takes a layout parameter to
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113 $SYSTEMD_PAGER
114 Pager to use when --no-pager is not given; overrides $PAGER. If
115 neither $SYSTEMD_PAGER nor $PAGER are set, a set of well-known
116 pager implementations are tried in turn, including less(1) and
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118 discovered no pager is invoked. Setting this environment variable
119 to an empty string or the value "cat" is equivalent to passing
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123 Override the options passed to less (by default "FRSXMK").
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136 http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/xorg-docs/input/XKB-Config.html
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