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I would like to change the displayed name of the keyboard layout indicator — for example, right now mine reads en, ru or uk which does not look nice on the panel. Is it possible?

Can I edit some configuration file and make it read English, Russian or Ukrainian?

ks1322
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  • I have found [this](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3507927) solution, but it have been four years, so from the fact that my xkb folder is empty I guess keyboard layout indicator display method have changed. – Somebody Nov 01 '11 at 10:17
  • Duplicate of https://askubuntu.com/q/940617/103599. – ks1322 May 04 '20 at 18:52
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    Does this answer your question? [How to change the abbreviations of layouts shown in keyboard layout indicator of GNOME panel?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/940617/how-to-change-the-abbreviations-of-layouts-shown-in-keyboard-layout-indicator-of) – Kevin Bowen May 04 '20 at 20:00

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I recommend you have a read through the Community Documentation for custom keyboard layout definitions.

The basic keyboard mapping package is XKB. In current Ubuntus, the default directory is not /etc/X11/xkb but rather /usr/share/X11/xkb. Layouts are kept in the symbols directory therein: they are generally named by a two letter country code associated with the language for which the layout is designed.

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