systemd-localed(8) Locale bus mechanism

Other Alias

systemd-localed.service

SYNOPSIS

systemd-localed.service

/lib/systemd/systemd-localed

DESCRIPTION

systemd-localed is a system service that may be used as mechanism to change the system locale settings, as well as the console key mapping and default X11 key mapping. systemd-localed is automatically activated on request and terminates itself when it is unused.

The tool localectl(1) is a command line client to this service.

See the m[blue]developer documentationm[][1] for information about the APIs systemd-localed provides.