A German keyboard has been plugged into a running X session that is currently using the US layout. Type the complete command, with its argument, that switches the keyboard layout of the running X session to the German layout for the rest of the session.
LPIC-1 Exam 102-500, objective 106. User interfaces and desktops medium
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setxkbmap desetxkbmap -layout de
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Why
setxkbmap talks to the running X server's XKB extension, so the change takes effect immediately and lasts only for that server's lifetime; the first non-option argument is taken as the layout. To make the layout survive a restart you write it into the XkbLayout option of an InputClass section under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, or on a systemd host let `localectl set-x11-keymap de` generate that snippet for you. Note that localectl's X11 keymap and its console keymap (loadkeys) are two separate settings.
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- manual page setxkbmap(1)
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