keyboard layout on greeter is not stored per user (function lost from 16.04 to 18.04)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdm |
New
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Unknown
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gdm3 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
We are using two keyboard layouts in my family (dvorak-like and standard).
With 16.04, upon selection of user on the greeter, the keyboard layout would default to the one of the user.
With 18.04 fresh install, the above is lost. Instead, the last selected keyboard layout remains selected. Therefore it is necessary to check and maybe change the layout to be able to set the password.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gdm3 3.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri May 4 19:39:08 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-27 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile.
Changed in gdm: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in gdm: | |
status: | Confirmed → Expired |
Changed in gdm: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
status: | Expired → Unknown |
Changed in gdm: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Thanks for your report!
I think the info is stored; the problem is that GDM does not make use of it. The issue is also discussed in bug #1725676, see e.g. comment #11.
I also found an upstream bug report.