Hello there!
I had this problem before, but I was too lazy to note the solution somewhere. Now I changed my keyboard to another type and make, and since that, LightDM and it’s default GTK greeter does not respect my keyboard layout. (Yes, a keyboard change was enough…).
So the problem is: No matter what you set in various places, LightDM and it’s GTK greeter does not respect your system’s default keyboard layout.
The things I’ve tried so far:
- Edit xorg.conf (and xorg.conf.d/*) adding Xkblayout option everywhere, where it is applicable
- Edit the settings in YaST, sysconfig
I am continuously searching for specific LightDM settings, but the “good looking” solution would be to have LightDM respect the system wide settings.
Version information:
> uname -a
Linux hgjhome 3.6.5-10-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 31 20:15:15 UTC 2012 (cefb3b0) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> cat /etc/SuSE-release # It's Tumbleweed
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)
VERSION = 12.2
CODENAME = Mantis
> lightdm -v
lightdm 1.2.2
Thank you for any reply,
Greg