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Bug 776282 - Feature request: Save preferred keyboard layout per user
Feature request: Save preferred keyboard layout per user
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-12-19 15:43 UTC by Wade Berrier
Modified: 2018-05-24 11:30 UTC
See Also:
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Description Wade Berrier 2016-12-19 15:43:41 UTC 
It would be great if the keyboard layout was persisted (much like session selection) every time a user logs in.

Upon logging in again, selecting the user would also select the keyboard layout.

This is a feature ChromeOS (maybe other OSes?) have that I think would be great if gdm also had.

Also described here:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2015-May/msg00001.html
Comment 1 bodinux 2018-05-09 07:23:43 UTC 
This feature is of regular use in my family as two different keyboard layouts are used.
It was present in Unity (ubuntu 16.04), I believe it would be useful for gdm users as well.

See also : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1769224
Comment 2 bodinux 2018-05-18 05:26:35 UTC 
I would like to add the following information :

at login, there is the helper with the possibility to have a virtual keyboard.

Fist issue :
This virtual keyboard appears in qwerty regardless of the active layout

Second issue :
When I try to change the layout, the list of layouts is displayed. When I move my mouse to select the layout I want, the virtual keyboard disappears. So I can't change the layout of the virtual keyboard.
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 11:30:38 UTC 
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