Can anyone explain me how to setup up ArchLinux to be completely in English except for the KeyboardLayout? (it should be de-latin1-nodeadkeys)
Linux – ArchLinux how to setup English Language with german keyboardlayout
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Best Answer
To get system where your locale is en_US.UTF-8 (assuming you want utf-8, which is recommended) and keyboard layout in both X.Org and virtual consoles is de-latin1-nodeadkeys, do these steps:
/etc/locale.gen
(e.g.sed -i 's/#en_US.UTF-8/en-US.UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen
)locale-gen
echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
localectl set-keymap de-latin1-nodeadkeys
localectl set-x11-keymap de-latin1-nodeadkeys
Sidenote:
localectl set-keymap
writes given keymap to/etc/vconsole.conf
to variableKEYMAP
.