localectl

Control the system locale and keyboard layout settings. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/localectl.html>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/localectl.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install systemd
Ubuntu
apt-get install systemd
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S systemd
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install systemd
CentOS
yum install systemd
Fedora
dnf install systemd
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install systemd
Raspbian
apt-get install systemd
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/localectl

Control the system locale and keyboard layout settings. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/localectl.html>.

  • Show the current settings of the system locale and keyboard mapping:
    localectl
  • List available locales:
    localectl list-locales
  • Set a system locale variable:
    localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  • List available keymaps:
    localectl list-keymaps
  • Set the system keyboard mapping for the console and X11:
    localectl set-keymap us

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