I have a Acer Chromebook that is running in Developer Mode. In ChromeOS and cosh I have a German keyboard. When I want to switch to Ubuntu (strg+alt+f2) I have to login to the Developer Console with the login account chronos. But here the keyboard layout/setting is EN-US. After typing in the commands crouton/ubuntu starts and the keyboard layout is German again.
How can I change/switch the keyboard layout in the Developer Console? Is there a shell command for it?
The Developer Console, crosh, is a unix console, and unix commands generally apply. I'm not sure what the relevant command is offhand, but you can probably find it with some Google-fu.
Alternatively, the developer console is also accessible by pressing
Ctrl-Alt-T, which opens crosh in a tab instead, then typingshell.You can then change keyboard layouts using Chrome OS's graphical interface.
Check Chrome Options
Add a new language and select the corresponding keyboard layout
The status bar now reflects the current keyboard layout
Clicking it will allow you to switch layouts