I reinstalled one of my frontends recently, but the language and keyboard mapping settings did not "catch". Changing the displayed language can be done from the menu, but the keyboard mapping was not so easy. There are threads here, but they all refer to the old KnoppMyth times. I managed to figure it out and for my own memory and to help others in the same predicament, here is what I did:

The proper way to do it is said to be: but that returns an error code 1 on my system.

Instead, I created a file named /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf (as root)
Put this in it:


Substitute "se" with the keyboard layout for the desired language/region, save and reboot.

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