[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#802123: Bug#802123: lightdm ignores system keyboard settings

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

control: tag -1 unreproducible moreinfo

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 05:31:06PM +0100, pberger wrote:
> Package: lightdm
> Version: 1.10.3-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I installed Debian Jessie with LXDE and selected FR as keyboard layout during the install.
> 
> However lightdm ignores my choice and starts me up with a US keyboard layout.
> 
> The system settings is set properly in /etc/default/keyboard:
> 
> ####################################################
> pierre at pierre-desktop:~$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
> # KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
> 
> # Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
> 
> XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBLAYOUT="fr"
> XKBVARIANT="latin9"
> XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
> 
> BACKSPACE="guess"
> ####################################################
> 
> And if I switch to command line mode (Ctl-Alt-F1), the keyboard layout is correct ; it's only lightdm that ignores this setting.
> 
> I worked around the issue by adding 'setxkbmap -layout fr' to my /etc/X11/Xsession.d ; however this is only sourced after login, so the login screen is still using US keyboard which is uncool. In any case I think something wrong is going on as lightdm should probably use system settings by default.
> 
That's perfectly unrelated to LightDM, actually, I think. At least the
keymap is set by X11 at startup, and nowadays it uses the system wide
settings. And it works just fine for me on every box I tried, so you'll
need to provide more information. Start by looking at the Xorg.0.log
file.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez
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