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	The default keyboard layout on LFScript systems is set to "us-acentos", which is the nearest equivalent of the "US International" layout. It is the default because it allows one to type characters which are common in European languages on a plain US qwerty keyboard. You may need to press the space bar after a double-quote to type that character, but at the same time you can type the characters ä, ë, ï, ö and ü by pressing a, e, i, o or u in stead. Other keys (like the single quote) produce similar results.		The default keyboard layout on LFScript systems is set to "us-acentos", which is the nearest equivalent of the "US International" layout. It is the default because it allows one to type characters which are common in European languages on a plain US qwerty keyboard. You may need to press the space bar after a double-quote to type that character, but at the same time you can type the characters ä, ë, ï, ö and ü by pressing a, e, i, o or u in stead. Other keys (like the single quote) produce similar results.

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	And change <code>us-acentos</code> to your preferred keyboard layout.		And change <code>us-acentos</code> to your preferred keyboard layout.

	== ~~Extra information~~ ==		== External Links ==
	~~More information about the <code>/etc/sysconfig/console</code> file can be found in~~ [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter07/console.html Linux From Scratch].		* [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter07/console.html ''Configuring the Linux Console''], in ''Linux From Scratch''
			* [https://answers.launchpad.net/lfscript/+question/189109 ''To type a ", it requires the space bar to be pressed after pressing "''], Launchpad question

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The default keyboard layout on LFScript systems is set to "us-acentos", which is the nearest equivalent of the "US International" layout. It is the default because it allows one to type characters which are common in European languages on a plain US qwerty keyboard. You may need to press the space bar after a double-quote to type that character, but at the same time you can type the characters ä, ë, ï, ö and ü by pressing a, e, i, o or u in stead. Other keys (like the single quote) produce similar results.

== Changing the keyboard layout ==
=== On a running system ===
Keyboard layouts are stored in <code>/lib/kbd/keymaps</code>. To change the keyboard layout on the fly, you can execute the <code>loadkeys</code> command.

The next command loads the "us" keyboard layout:
<pre>loadkeys us</pre>

However, this does not make it permanent. To make it permanent, execute the following too:

<pre>cat >> /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
KEYMAP="us"
EOF</pre>

=== Before building a system ===
The default keyboard layout can also be changed before a system is even built, by editing the <code>lfs-<version>/bootscripts</code> script. In that file, (near line 180 in LFScript 4r21) search for:

<pre>KEYMAP="us-acentos"</pre>

And change <code>us-acentos</code> to your preferred keyboard layout.

== Extra information ==
More information about the <code>/etc/sysconfig/console</code> file can be found in [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter07/console.html Linux From Scratch].