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To change the system keyboard (i.e., graphical console keyboard) configuration, log in as root and select a keyboard from the ``Keyboard'' list in the main window of the International Settings Manager. This specifies the keyboard configuration file used by the system keyboard for conversion of each keystroke from scancodes to the codeset currently in use on the console.
For example, a French keyboard and an American English keyboard may both have the same physical layout, and the keys in any given position may return the same codes, but the keycodes have different symbols (``glyphs'', or printable characters) attached to them. The French keyboard returns different characters than the American English keyboard.
The keyboard files listed in the main window of the
International Settings Manager
specify the country-specific layouts of
AT®- and PS/2®-style keyboards.
All the keyboard files are stored in /usr/lib/keyboard.
These files map the system keyboard to the given national standard.
The keyboard file for a particular national standard might need to
be modified for a specific keyboard.
If you need to modify the keyboard map, or create a new one,
copy the appropriate file in /usr/lib/keyboard to
a new file in the same directory and modify the new file.
Name the file according to this convention:
keyboard_type.codeset.country
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