Add ability to set default guest session keyboard layout

[Elias K Gardner]

I think this will be a wishlist item.

I use the dvorak as the default keyboard layout. My guest sessions then also uses dvorak as the default layout. Anyone I lend my computer to does not use dvorak and does not know how to change the keyboard layout. For the guest session to be useful I need to be able to set its default keyboard layout.

If this is a wishlist item it could be viewed more broadly as a wish to be able to customize the default guest session.

[Paul Broadhead (pjbroad)]

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[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

As a workaround (or different solution) you can set the global keyboard layout to US ("Apply system-wide") and set your own session's keyboard layout to dvorak.

[Elias K Gardner (zorkerz)]

It is also possible to change the layout by modifying the file
/usr/share/gdm/guest-session/guest-session-setup.sh

Directions have been copied from here
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm-guest-session/+question/48970thanks
to David D Lowe.

"Open /usr/share/gdm/guest-session/guest-session-setup.sh as root:

sudo gedit /usr/share/gdm/guest-session/guest-session-setup.sh

Find the following lines:

su guest <<EOF
gconftool --set --type bool
/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver/start_screensaver False
gconftool --set --type bool
/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/screensaver/active False
EOF

Before the second EOF, add this line:

gconftool --set --type list --list-type string
/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/layouts [us,us"`echo "\tdvorak"`"]

This will make the default layout US Qwerty, with US Dvorak as a secondary
keyboard.

Hope it works!"