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I'm trying to configure a Debian Linux (ARMHF 3.8.13-bone20) on a BeagleBone Black to use German as the default language and keyboard layout, which does not work, and I can't see why. I'm talking about the console settings, not X or Gnome etc. Here are my settings and what I did so far:
dpkg-reconfigure locales
Here I chose de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
and unselected en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
.
Output from locale
:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.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=
Content of /etc/default/locale
:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
Content of /etc/default/keyboard
:
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="de"
XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys"
XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
BACKSPACE="guess"
I ran setupcon
after making these settings and it didn't change anything, the layout still was en_US
.
After that, I ran
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
and set German - no dead keys
as keyboard layout. Still no change, neither at once nor after a reboot.
Next, I tried
dpkg-reconfigure console-data
Here I chose
Choose layout from entire list
and then
pc / quertz / German / Standard / latin1 - no dead keys
The output after that was:
Looking for keymap to install:
de-latin1-nodeadkeys
#
At this moment, the correct keyboard layout is present, but unfortunately things revert to the English (US) keyboard layout after reboot.
What can I do to permanently change the keyboard layout? As far as I can see the correct keymap must be present as it can get loaded, but only until the next reboot. What am I missing here?
Update: When connecting via SSH the German keymap gets loaded.
1This question is from 2 years and 9 months ago and it is still happening to me in July 2017. Has anyone actually solved this? It is annoying that I keep getting set back to the gb keyboard. Not that big a deal since for me that means the " and @ get reversed. I can live with that. Going in through the GUI fixes it until the next (very rare) power recycle as I back up the SD card. I echo the clue in the update: This only happens to the one RPi where I have a keyboard and monitor. It never happens when I use RDP. I don't see an accepted answer so I guess we're left to just deal with it. – SDsolar – 2017-07-07T23:45:24.080
Hi, I've exact the same issues with my gnome installation. Are there some new information? – zzeroo – 2014-02-26T08:48:35.737