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Mechanix

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Registered: 2016-04-06

Posts: 13

GDM defaults to en_US keyboard

Hi,

I´m using Gnome 3.20.2 and I noticed that in gdm the keyboard layout defaults to en_US instead of de_DE.

Here is my 00-keyboard.conf for X11:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "de,us,ro"
        Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys,,"
EndSection

Is there any way to get the german keyboard as default? Thank you.

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: GDM defaults to en_US keyboard

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … ard_layout

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My bad: didn't realise you had set it correctly. Restored...

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satanselbow

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Registered: 2011-06-15

Posts: 538

Re: GDM defaults to en_US keyboard

As per the wiki GDM does not honour xorg.conf; gnome-control-center or manual edit of /var/lib/AccountsService/users/gdm is required.

ijanos

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 443

Re: GDM defaults to en_US keyboard

I think it is more complicated than that. It honours localctl (systemd-localed) which in turn updates the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf file.

The only workaround I found was removing other layouts from the file.

Mechanix

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Registered: 2016-04-06

Posts: 13

Re: GDM defaults to en_US keyboard

I think it is more complicated than that. It honours localctl (systemd-localed) which in turn updates the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf file.

The only workaround I found was removing other layouts from the file.

Yes, that worked. Thank you