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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #488048
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 488048

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Hugo Buddel (v-launchpad-hugo-doemaarwat-nl) wrote : Re: keyboard layout needs to be reset after each login

I read up a bit in these threads (where Martin Pitt also contributes a lot)

"always overrides keyboard layout variants"
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572765
"Try harder to use the keyboard layout passed by gdm"
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585290

I think the one thing that is overlooked, is that some users never see the gdm selector. To not require a password at login (or login automatically) is an option in the Lucid installation, so I think this is not an uncommon situation. The problem also occurs when there is no .dmrc file.

These users will not be able to change their default keyboard layout, at least that will be their experience. Therefore I think this bug should be reopened, but I'm quite new to launchpad so I'm not sure whether it is appropriate for me to do that.