configure your TTY¶

show current status

localectl

show the lost of keymaps

localectl list-keymaps

set keymap

localectl set-keymap de

as of 2015-08-27 it seems the only way to permanently set the keyboard-layout in the console permanently is to update grub.cfg

vim /etc/default/grub

regenerate grub

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

reboot