How to configure the Weston keyboard layout

Edit and change the value of the keymap_layout variable (e.g. from fr to us) in the KEYBOARD section of the weston.ini Weston configuration file^[1]

  cat /etc/xdg/weston/weston.ini
 [...]
 [keyboard]
 keymap_layout=fr
 [...]

  vi /etc/xdg/weston/weston.ini
 [...]
 [keyboard]
 keymap_layout=us
 [...]

  systemctl restart weston

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