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Get German keyboard with English user interface
Sven Putze edited this page Mar 1, 2020
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Table of Contents
General Information
Terminal-based Configuration
Graphical Configuration
ZFS References
- ZFS Snapshots and Pruning
- ZFS Send and Receive
- Exporting/Importing Datasets
- Moving Default Home Directory to a Separate Drive
General How-To's
Clone this wiki locally
To get an English UI with German keyboard, I followed the Void wiki and did:
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Become root
sudo su - -
Uncomment the wanted locales in the system
sed -i -e 's/^#de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8/g' /etc/default/libc-locales sed -i -e 's/^#en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/g' /etc/default/libc-locales -
Write
/etc/locale.confand set everything to German, exceptLANGandLC_MESSAGEScat << __EOF__ > /etc/locale.conf LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL= __EOF__ -
Rebuild locales
xbps-reconfigure -f glibc-locales exit
Now, there are the Umlauts in qterm, xterm and the "real TTY" aka ALT+F2. This should probably work with other combinations of locales, too.
Quick Links
- Main Website: https://project-trident.org
- Sponsorships available! https://project-trident.org/sponsors
- Void Linux Documentation
- Void Linux Rosetta Stone: Dictionary of commands between different Linux distros.
- Void Linux FAQ