QWERTY keyboard for the password during the greeter

Bug #835872 reported by little jo
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
lightdm (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

I have French keyboard (AZERTY).

During the session, there is no problem: the behaviour of my keyboard is AZERTY (for eg: when i locked screen, I use AZERTY keyboard to type my password) except during the password typed greeter (QWERTY keyboard, i think).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: lightdm 0.9.3-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 28 09:10:44 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110802.1)
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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little jo (littel-jo) wrote :
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

The default layout is set in /etc/default/keyboard and is set when installing. So, this is probably set wrong for you. I'll mark this as a duplicate of bug 834487 as there is supposed to be a keyboard layout option in the greeter (assuming you're using Unity greeter). Thanks for the bug report.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Luc Novales (luc-novales-5) wrote :

Bug #834487 allows to workarround the bug and for me the problem is not in lightdm package : layout is wrong under X without dm (gdm lightdm or other).

evdev does not use values set in /etc/defaults/keyboard

Setting these values in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf as below, solves this problem.

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
 # keyboard is not set to french
 Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
 Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
 Option "XkbVariant" "oss"
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