keyboard

The keyboard Kickstart command is required. It sets one or more available keyboard layouts for the system. Use this command only once.

Syntax

              keyboard --vckeymap|--xlayouts OPTIONS
Options
  • --vckeymap= - Specify a VConsole keymap which should be used. Valid names correspond to the list of files in the /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/ directory, without the .map.gz extension.
  • --xlayouts= - Specify a list of X layouts that should be used as a comma-separated list without spaces. Accepts values in the same format as setxkbmap(1), either in the layout format (such as cz), or in the layout (variant) format (such as cz (qwerty)).

    All available layouts can be viewed on the xkeyboard-config(7) man page under Layouts.

  • --switch= - Specify a list of layout-switching options (shortcuts for switching between multiple keyboard layouts). Multiple options must be separated by commas without spaces. Accepts values in the same format as setxkbmap(1).

    Available switching options can be viewed on the xkeyboard-config(7) man page under Options.

Example

The following example sets up two keyboard layouts (English (US) and Czech (qwerty)) using the --xlayouts= option, and allows to switch between them using Alt+Shift:


              keyboard --xlayouts=us,'cz (qwerty)' --switch=grp:alt_shift_toggle
Note
  • Either the --vckeymap= or the --xlayouts= option must be used.