[Bug] LightDM does not use the configured keyboard layout

[Jeremy]

Expected Behavior:

• The LightDM Login manager uses the same layout than the rest of the LinuxMX OS

Observed Behavior:

• The configuration of keyboard layout has no effect of the LightDM Login Manager. A user with a non-US layout and no auto login will have to reselect his layout in the very long layout list each times he tries to connect.
• Selected layout will not be saved for the next connection.
• No user-friendly tool or parameter allows to set a default layout for LighDM

Solution

• To permanently define a layout for LightDM, the following line must be added in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf below [SeatDefaults]

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  greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/setxkbmap -layout xx -variant yy

  For a french swiss layout, xx = ch and yy = fr
  -layout is optional

Steps to reproduce

• Clean install, with preserve /home selected, and a different layout than us selected in the installation settings

[dolphin_oracle]

Expected Behavior:

• The LightDM Login manager uses the same layout than the rest of the LinuxMX OS

Observed Behavior:

• The configuration of keyboard layout has no effect of the LightDM Login Manager. A user with a non-US layout and no auto login will have to reselect his layout in the very long layout list each times he tries to connect.
• Selected layout will not be saved for the next connection.
• No user-friendly tool or parameter allows to set a default layout for LighDM

Solution

• To permanently define a layout for LightDM, the following line must be added in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf below [SeatDefaults]

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  greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/setxkbmap -layout xx -variant yy

  For a french swiss layout, xx = ch and yy = fr
  -layout is optional

Steps to reproduce

• Clean install, with preserve /home selected, and a different layout than us selected in the installation settings

could you post your /etc/default/keyboard file please?

[Jeremy]

Here it is. Is it missing something ? While trying to solve this issue I also reconfigured keyboard itself through

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 dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

, which affected this file

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# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="ch"
XKBVARIANT="fr"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

BACKSPACE="guess"

[dolphin_oracle]

Here it is. Is it missing something ? While trying to solve this issue I also reconfigured keyboard itself through

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 dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

, which affected this file

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# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="ch"
XKBVARIANT="fr"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

BACKSPACE="guess"

with that info in the file, was it still defaulting to a us keyboard without your script added to lightdm.conf?

[Jeremy]

Here it is. Is it missing something ? While trying to solve this issue I also reconfigured keyboard itself through

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 dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

, which affected this file

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# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="ch"
XKBVARIANT="fr"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

BACKSPACE="guess"

with that info in the file, was it still defaulting to a us keyboard without your script added to lightdm.conf?

Yes, when I remove the line from /etc/lightdm/lighdm.conf, it will default to us, even with the correct infos in Keyboard configuration file. Actually, it defaults to [layout] not us