How to Change Default Language Qubes 4

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Campbell

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Nov 18, 2018, 11:00:19 AM11/18/18
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On install I chose UK English with US Keyboard. For some reason upon installation Qubes set my laptop keyboard to UK, even though I chose US keyboard during installation.

My guess is that when Qubes set language to UK English it automatically set the keyboard to UK, despite what I entered at install.

How do I change the default language to US English, and will that fix my keyboard layout?

a...@it-minds.dk

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Nov 19, 2018, 3:10:22 AM11/19/18
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Hello!

If you aren't going to use any other keyboard layouts than US, then look into setting it on X server level. That's what I do at least.

Look here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg/Keyboard_configuration#Using_X_configuration_files

Basically you need to add a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ in dom0 (it doesn't really matter what you call the file, as long as you don't have clashing files).

For US layout the file would look something like:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

hope this helps!

DonC

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Nov 19, 2018, 9:29:04 AM11/19/18
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This did the trick! Simple fix, thank you very much. Edit 00-keyboard
file in that location, change it from gb to us, and restart and my
keyboard is correct.

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