localectl(1)

NAME

   localectl - Control the system locale and keyboard layout settings

SYNOPSIS

   localectl [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND}

DESCRIPTION

   localectl may be used to query and change the system locale and
   keyboard layout settings. It communicates with systemd-localed(8) to
   modify files such as /etc/locale.conf and /etc/vconsole.conf.

   The system locale controls the language settings of system services and
   of the UI before the user logs in, such as the display manager, as well
   as the default for users after login.

   The keyboard settings control the keyboard layout used on the text
   console and of the graphical UI before the user logs in, such as the
   display manager, as well as the default for users after login.

   Note that the changes performed using this tool might require the
   initramfs to be rebuilt to take effect during early system boot. The
   initramfs is not rebuilt automatically by localectl.

   Note that systemd-firstboot(1) may be used to initialize the system
   locale for mounted (but not booted) system images.

OPTIONS

   The following options are understood:

   --no-ask-password
       Do not query the user for authentication for privileged operations.

   --no-convert
       If set-keymap or set-x11-keymap is invoked and this option is
       passed, then the keymap will not be converted from the console to
       X11, or X11 to console, respectively.

   -H, --host=
       Execute the operation remotely. Specify a hostname, or a username
       and hostname separated by "@", to connect to. The hostname may
       optionally be suffixed by a container name, separated by ":", which
       connects directly to a specific container on the specified host.
       This will use SSH to talk to the remote machine manager instance.
       Container names may be enumerated with machinectl -H HOST.

   -h, --help
       Print a short help text and exit.

   --version
       Print a short version string and exit.

   --no-pager
       Do not pipe output into a pager.

   The following commands are understood:

   status
       Show current settings of the system locale and keyboard mapping.

   set-locale LOCALE...
       Set the system locale. This takes one or more assignments such as
       "LANG=de_DE.utf8", "LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8", and so on. See
       locale(7) for details on the available settings and their meanings.
       Use list-locales for a list of available locales (see below).

   list-locales
       List available locales useful for configuration with set-locale.

   set-keymap MAP [TOGGLEMAP]
       Set the system keyboard mapping for the console and X11. This takes
       a mapping name (such as "de" or "us"), and possibly a second one to
       define a toggle keyboard mapping. Unless --no-convert is passed,
       the selected setting is also applied as the default system keyboard
       mapping of X11, after converting it to the closest matching X11
       keyboard mapping. Use list-keymaps for a list of available keyboard
       mappings (see below).

   list-keymaps
       List available keyboard mappings for the console, useful for
       configuration with set-keymap.

   set-x11-keymap LAYOUT [MODEL [VARIANT [OPTIONS]]]
       Set the system default keyboard mapping for X11 and the virtual
       console. This takes a keyboard mapping name (such as "de" or "us"),
       and possibly a model, variant, and options, see kbd(4) for details.
       Unless --no-convert is passed, the selected setting is also applied
       as the system console keyboard mapping, after converting it to the
       closest matching console keyboard mapping.

   list-x11-keymap-models, list-x11-keymap-layouts,
   list-x11-keymap-variants [LAYOUT], list-x11-keymap-options
       List available X11 keymap models, layouts, variants and options,
       useful for configuration with set-keymap. The command
       list-x11-keymap-variants optionally takes a layout parameter to
       limit the output to the variants suitable for the specific layout.

EXIT STATUS

   On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

ENVIRONMENT

   $SYSTEMD_PAGER
       Pager to use when --no-pager is not given; overrides $PAGER. If
       neither $SYSTEMD_PAGER nor $PAGER are set, a set of well-known
       pager implementations are tried in turn, including less(1) and
       more(1), until one is found. If no pager implementation is
       discovered no pager is invoked. Setting this environment variable
       to an empty string or the value "cat" is equivalent to passing
       --no-pager.

   $SYSTEMD_LESS
       Override the options passed to less (by default "FRSXMK").

   $SYSTEMD_LESSCHARSET
       Override the charset passed to less (by default "utf-8", if the
       invoking terminal is determined to be UTF-8 compatible).

SEE ALSO

   systemd(1), locale(7), locale.conf(5), vconsole.conf(5), loadkeys(1),
   kbd(4), The XKB Configuration Guide[1], systemctl(1), systemd-
   localed.service(8), systemd-firstboot(1), mkinitrd(8)

NOTES

    1. The XKB Configuration Guide
       http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/xorg-docs/input/XKB-Config.html

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