Hello,
I would like to report a recurring post-install issue I noticed on several recent openSUSE ISO images.
Issue
After installation, the French keyboard layout (AZERTY) is not consistently applied.
The problem seems to affect:
- SDDM (login screen),
- KDE Plasma,
- or sometimes both.
In some cases:
- the keyboard stays in QWERTY at the login screen;
- after logging in, KDE switches correctly to AZERTY;
- in other cases, the whole system remains in QWERTY even though “French” keyboard layout was selected during installation.
Expected behavior
The keyboard layout selected during installation should be applied consistently:
- in console/TTY,
- in SDDM,
- and inside the KDE Plasma session.
Additional information
- System language: French
- Keyboard layout: French (AZERTY)
- The issue appears randomly depending on the ISO used (“roughly one ISO out of two”).
- The correct keyboard layout is properly selected during installation.
Impact
This is confusing after installation, especially when passwords contain special characters or numbers, because the keyboard layout at login is not the expected one.
Thank you.