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Emoryy

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2013-10-25

Posts: 22

Problem with the layout of wireless Logitech keyboard at startup

This seems to be quite a strange issue.
At system startup at the display manager login screen (I use lightdm) the layout of my Logitech K360 keyboard is set to english / qwerty, even though the system locale is hungarian.
This is understandably can be quite problematic upon entering passwords...
The curious thing is that the layout of the laptop's own keyboard remains hungarian, furthermore once I've hit a key on it, the layout of the wireless keyboard also resets to hungarian.

Fortunately I don't experience the issue once I logged in. (However this isn't a case for my work laptop (with the same keyboard), where the problem persists even after login. But I run Manjaro on that computer, so that doesn't belong here.)

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bluestreak0

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From: England

Registered: 2014-04-12

Posts: 22

Re: Problem with the layout of wireless Logitech keyboard at startup

Have you read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … on_in_Xorg?

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Emoryy

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2013-10-25

Posts: 22

Re: Problem with the layout of wireless Logitech keyboard at startup

Hate to say it, but no. (Not until now.)

However I don't really see any hint toward a solution.
In the wiki it is stated that there is three method to set the layout:
1) setxkbmap - says that changes can be made persistent with ~/.xinitrc, but as I guess that only applies when I log in with my user, and not on the login screen.
2) X configuration files - I already have an auto generated config file here with the right settings.
3) localectl - generates the aforementioned config files.

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bluestreak0

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From: England

Registered: 2014-04-12

Posts: 22

Re: Problem with the layout of wireless Logitech keyboard at startup

In /etc/lightdm.conf there is a setting called greeter-setup-script.

Try putting in there setxkbmap -layout etc. as detailed in the wiki.

This runs each time a greeter is started.

Not the cleanest solution, but should work.

Last edited by bluestreak0 (2014-05-31 14:07:43)

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Emoryy

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2013-10-25

Posts: 22

Re: Problem with the layout of wireless Logitech keyboard at startup

I've done as you said. I've put the line

greeter-setup-script = setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout hu

into /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
Still no good.

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bluestreak0

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From: England

Registered: 2014-04-12

Posts: 22

Re: Problem with the layout of wireless Logitech keyboard at startup

Might be of use:
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=69.0

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Emoryy

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2013-10-25

Posts: 22

Re: Problem with the layout of wireless Logitech keyboard at startup

Might be of use:
https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=69.0

Tried it. Still no luck.

Also found this (at the bottom) https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo … _xorg.conf
Which is what you said to try with lightdm. Except that the greeter script either doesn't work, or doesn't run.
It says that "temporary workaround". I guess (I hope) this implies that eventually it will be fixed.

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bluestreak0

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From: England

Registered: 2014-04-12

Posts: 22

Re: Problem with the layout of wireless Logitech keyboard at startup

If you dont think the command is excecuting, you could try writing a simple script in /usr/local/bin

#!/bin/sh
setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout hu

Then do

# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/keyboard.sh

Finally, in lightdm.conf, find the greeter-setup-script setting and put in

greeter-setup-script=/usr/local/bin/keyboard.sh

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