Debian keyboard layout

For issues with Debian keyboard layout, firstly see here

The main commands of interest are;

 

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration 

 

We may need to restart the keyboard-setup with;

 

sudo /etc/init.d/keyboard-setup.sh restart

 

We can also try the below (especially if we're getting " and @ etc mixed up);

sudo setxkbmap gb

It's also worth checking out the file /etc/default/keyboard

 

For Slackware of course, I believe we can simply run sudo setup and choose the keymap option or alternatively, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap