Linux – Changing keyboard layout

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I want to change the keyboard layout from US to UK through the terminal on my Linux machine. I'm running CentOS 6.4. I have tried using the loadkeys uk method, but it doesn't change the layout. It is still US.

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loadkeys uk

As root should work.. Maybe the uk layout isn't installed on your system?

Or try to open /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and replace KEYTABLE="us" by KEYTABLE="uk", a reboot will be necessary.

The trouble is that Xrdp doesn't seem to support X windows keyboard mappings properly.

It is an old problem discussed from 2012 and still patched somehow in the same way in 2019 (read the comments of the previous link).

In your case, since remote desktop takes the precedence, it seems logic to install the proper layout (colemak) on the windows machine and switch to that to use it in the virtual environment too. Since you are not in the possibility to install any driver I see only a couple of solutions:

If you can install some program for the current user, you may try to use another program to connect with your emulated environment, choosing one that allows you to select the host keyboard layout. I remember that No Machine worked well once...you can try it (there is a free version too).
To remap the keyboard inside Linux. From the this link you can download a file (km-0809.ini) with some mapping already made, and modify it for your purposes.
```
sudo chown xrdp.xrdp /etc/xrdp/km-0809.ini 
sudo chmod 644 /etc/xrdp/km-0809.ini
sudo service xrdp restart
```

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