How to change your keyboard layout on Raspberry Pi

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To change the keyboard layout on a Raspberry Pi, do the following:

Make sure you are in the terminal. If you aren’t, open LXTerminal. Then type:

sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard

If you did that right, a window will show up. It looks like the window below:

raspberrikeyboardbefore

Then, change the XKBLAYOUT field to another timezone. You can see an example below:

keyboardlayoutafterdone

When you changed it, press the following key combination and reboot:

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sudo reboot

Now enjoy your new keyboard layout!

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