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Bug 702209 - Keyboard layout selected at login screen should be applied to user's session
Keyboard layout selected at login screen should be applied to user's session
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-settings-daemon
Classification: Core
Component: keyboard
3.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Rui Matos
gnome-settings-daemon-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-06-13 21:36 UTC by Adam Williamson
Modified: 2019-02-04 09:22 UTC
See Also:
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Description Adam Williamson 2013-06-13 21:36:34 UTC 
As reported downstream:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924360

it seems sensible that, if a user picks a keyboard layout at the login screen which is available in their user session, that keyboard layout should be selected for them. Apparently this is not currently the case.
Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2015-01-09 18:08:04 UTC 
Still valid with GNOME 3.12 (Fedora 21).
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2015-01-28 11:36:40 UTC 
IIRC, this will only be the case if the user didn't set their own layouts.
Comment 3 Benjamin Berg 2019-02-01 13:57:45 UTC 
I think what we are more likely to do is the reverse. i.e. update the GDM language automatically if the user is an administrator.

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/23
Comment 4 Adam Williamson 2019-02-04 09:22:49 UTC 
I don't see how that addresses the issue at all, to be honest. The scenario we had in mind, I believe, was a multi-user system, with different users preferring different keyboard layouts. Updating the GDM layout to match the layout used by a user session that *just ended* is, if anything, more likely to be unhelpful than helpful in such a scenario.