Setting keyboard language in Whonix gateway 15 CLI

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I am using the Whonix gateway 15 CLI, how do I set the keyboard language?

I used to run loadkeys from .bashrc but this now throws some errors when I log in as a regular user, but when I login as root, it works.

Since Whonix 15 discourages running as root, how do I do this as a regular user?

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Thank you Patrick.

I read this before asking actually but I tried:

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration and setxkbmap

and this seems to only work for GUI, not CLI.

While setupcon complains it can’t open /dev/tty2,3,4,5,6.

I also tried loadkeys as I mentioned, but loadkeys has a lot of errors for the regular user, not for root though.

Loadkeys doesn’t work, it just gives a lot of permission denied and also “failed to bind string” with some escape codes for color, it looks like.

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Works for me.

How would this be done on Debian buster?

As per Free Support for Whonix ™

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Use sudo setupcon not setupcon as documented here:
Keyboard Layout

Can’t work in CLI - it is rightly documented under Desktop Environment:
Keyboard Layout