Bug 284036

Summary:	Bad keyboard layout on connection screen
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdm	Reporter:	gabriel.ruffieux
Component:	general	Assignee:	Andriy Rysin <arysin>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
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Description gabriel.ruffieux 2011-10-14 23:12:14 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.1) 
OS:                Linux

During installation, I could'nt find swiss french layout for my keyboard so I choosed standard french layout.

After installation I have installed other layouts and activate swiss french. So now I can write correctly azerty and numerical characters when I'm logged into the system. But from connection screen, it seems to be still the wrong layout.

Is that possible? I checked all configuration options but could'nt solve the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Plug a swiss french keyboard ;)
Install Ubuntu with standard french keyboard layout.
Choose a password containing at least azerty or numerical characters.
Login with your wrong keyboard layout ;))
Install missing components for language system.
Add swiss french layout from input device configuration.
Test if layout is well recognized by writing azerty and numbers.
Logout and login.

Actual Results:  
Cannot login because, wrong username/password.
You can still login by writing password guessing the characters from previous layout.

Expected Results:  
Login with the layout I actually setted.

Comment 1 Andriy Rysin 2011-10-15 14:22:52 UTC

Keyboard layout switcher provides the embedded layout switching component (which is already used in screen locker). It needs to be embedded in login manager, so I am reassigning this bug to kdm.

Comment 2 gabriel.ruffieux 2011-10-17 15:10:36 UTC

Ok I reconfigured my keyboard with root rights:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

and now it's all right.