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rated 0 times [  5] [ 0]  / answers: 1 / hits: 29639  / 2 Years ago, thu, july 21, 2022, 9:13:30

I have a netbook with an AZERTY layout. I've changed it to "bépo" to try it, but now I've reset it to a french layout.



While all the apps have taken the change into account, Ubuntu's login manager still uses bépo, making entering passwords a challenge. I've enabled the virtual keyboard for the time being so that I could login again.



I don't remember what I had done in the first place to switch the login screen to bépo, but now I can't switch it back.



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EDIT : In the keyboard settings page, if I click "use system defaults", then everything is in bépo ! Where is this different keyboard layout set ?



ANOTHER EDIT : Here's what did not work :




  1. Changing the layout in settings

  2. using the "use system defaults" checkbox in settings

  3. sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

  4. changing it in Xconf

  5. adding a line in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

  6. sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

  7. slaming head against desk

  8. dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

  9. sudo gsettings set org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard layouts "['fr']"

  10. combinations of the above



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Is it possible to relaunch the keyboard configuration tool that's in ubuntu's setup ? The thing has automatic layout detection and it changes the setting everywhere.


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Must have been a weird lightdm bug.



Lightdm got the new keyboard layout once I changed the login manager to gdm, then back to lightdm, even though simply doing dpkg-reconfigure lightdm did nothing.



So here it is :



sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gdm


(set gdm as the login manager when asked)



sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm


(set it as the login manager when asked)



sudo apt-get remove gdm


Then, restart.



Changing a keyboard layout in linux is serious business.


[#30071] Saturday, July 23, 2022, 2 Years  [reply] [flag answer]
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