Bug 185508

Summary: login screen should provide a keyboard layout switcher
Product: [Unmaintained] kdm Reporter: Jonathan Gibert <jokot3>
Component: generalAssignee: kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jonathan Gibert 2009-02-25 11:02:18 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I just let you imagine, I'm french (no, that's not the problem :p), I have a classical azerty laptop keyboard and a password containing alphanum + special characters.

Using Kubuntu jaunty alpha4 (fresh install), I'm expecting my keyboard layout will be automatically set to azerty but no (that's an alpha, I don't blame anyone). But in fact when I try to login in kdm, I'm typing qwerty and there is no simple way to understand it neither to change it. 
(ofcourse, I could throw some characters in the login field and guess the keyboard layout...)

I suggest to insert a simple language/keyboard layout switcher somewhere on the login screen.
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2009-03-15 13:35:30 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 51245 ***