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I am using Debian with LXDE.  I want to use the programmer Dvorak keyboard layout.

I am currently using a GUI that I added to the panel called “Keyboard Layout Handler”.

These are the current settings:

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I have also bound the Caps Lock key to Control.

I would appreciate help with these two things.

  1. The keyboard layout does not persist when I restart my computer.  It switches back to qwerty on restart.  It is qwerty when I am prompted to decrypt LVM and when signing in as a user.

  2. I would like to know how to do this using the command line instead of using a GUI.

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You have to install keyboard-configuration.

apt-get install keyboard-configuration

Then you will be able to select the keyboard you want off of a list.

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  • Thanks for this suggestion. Looking at wiki.debian.org/Keyboard helped me get it working for when I am prompted to decrypt LVM as well as once I am signed in. But the login page is still qwerty. Any suggestion on how to get the keyboard layout working on the login page. Commented Dec 17, 2017 at 4:23
  • wiki.debian.org/Keyboard#Keyboard_configuration was helpful to get it working after I had signed in. wiki.debian.org/… was helpful to get it working when prompted to decrypt LVM. Commented Dec 17, 2017 at 15:47

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