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Recently upgraded from 17.04 to 17.10 and I can't seem to find a way to set my keyboard layout at the new login screen. I have set the input method to dvorak within the settings>region+language option, and it works fine when logged in, but whenever I log out it defaults to qwerty and I have to bring up the on screen keyboard to input my password.

Anyone know how to set this properly?

cgate
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If your changes are not effective for the login screen too, you have probably more than one user account on the system. But in that case, the Settings -> Region & Language window includes a "Login Screen" button. Clicking that button switches the mode, so you can control the login screen values separately.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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This is an old post, but recently I have faced with the same issue.

During the Linux Mint installation, I accidentally selected the wrong keyboard layout. Later I fixed it by removing the old one and adding the proper keyboard, but unfortunately, this had no impact on the login screen.

Solution:

  1. login and show your current, working layout configuration with setxkbmap -print -verbose 10
  2. check the layout that is used on the login screen: cat /etc/default/keyboard
  3. set up properly the login screen keyboard layout with sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

That was the only solution that worked for me. I hope that it helps you as well.

zappee
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  1. Find the codes of the desired language layouts in the /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst file under the section named ! layout.

  2. Use the localectl tool to change the system keyboard layout settings as follows:

    localectl set-x11-keymap layout

  3. Log out to find that the defined layouts are available at the top bar on the login screen.

For more information check here.

Michael
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  • Tried this, using the command

    "localectl set-x11-keymap dvorak"

    found no change at login screen, still qwerty only.

     – cgate Nov 14 '17 at 00:23
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    @cgate: Try this: localectl set-x11-keymap us,us pc105 dvorak, (I have to say that the linked docs page is not complete.) – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Nov 14 '17 at 01:03
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    This has done the trick. Thanks.

    Would you mind explaining what the "us,us pc105" part does though? does dvorak need to be defined as a subset of the us layout?

     – cgate Nov 14 '17 at 13:14
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    @cgate: I'd suggest that you look at the /etc/default/keyboard file to study the result of the command. As you can see there, dvorak is a variant of the us layout. You can also run man localectl to see the documentation of the localectl command. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Nov 14 '17 at 13:38