Change keyboard layout in console mode

[MTK]

I was trying out the Dvorak layout in the time I installed Fedora 12, but have since found the placement of punctuation marks unconvenient for programming, and it was too frustrating to actually have to think about typing.

So I changed the setings in GNOME, and it was fine. The next day when I booted up, it was in pure console mode (I set it that way intentionally because I like it better than X login, and it safely falls back to the command line if I mess up X). Problem: it was in Dvorak and my keyboard is QWERTY. I had to reset the settings in GNOME again, too. I had to live with this a few days now. How do I remove all traces of choosing Dvorak during installation?

[hazel]

Somewhere in one of your startup scripts there is a keymap setting. I've never used Fedora but I seem to remember that Red Hat used to put all this sort of information in a special system configuration directory tree in /etc (I think it was called sysconfig) and the scripts picked it up from there. Fedora probably does the same. Gnome will take the setting from there too. You could look for the keymap setting file in that tree or you could grep for "dvorak" using

find -name "*"|xargs grep dvorak

. Once you've found the file, you can edit it to use the qwerty keymap.

[MTK]

I found the file /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, and I changed all instances of "dvorak" to "us" there. I'll see what happens tomorrow.

[MTK]

It works now.