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[Bug 1051288] Re: LightDM assumes there's only ONE system default layout

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From: Simon Friedberger <simon.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:35:56 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 1051288 <1051288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I can confirm that this is a pretty big problem if you have two users
who use different keyboard layouts. One of them simply cannot really
enter his password and has to learn how to type it on a different
layout.

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Title:
  LightDM assumes there's only ONE system default layout

Status in Light Display Manager:
  New
Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In Greece, the default system layout is "us,gr":
  $ grep XKBLAYOUT /etc/default/keyboard 
  XKBLAYOUT="us,gr"

  For new users that don't have .dmrc or accountsservice entries and are supposed to get the system defaults, LightDM assumes their keyboard layout is "us".
  So they can't switch languages in the greeter and they can't input national characters until they login, go to gnome settings and manually set the keyboard layout.

  A similar bug was
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/919200, but
  that was only solved for the single-layout case.

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