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Bug 696377 - gdm does not understand per-user keyboard layouts
gdm does not understand per-user keyboard layouts
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 618957
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 622305
 
 
Reported: 2013-03-22 11:33 UTC by Petr Schindler
Modified: 2016-01-05 20:47 UTC
See Also:
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Description Petr Schindler 2013-03-22 11:33:05 UTC 
When I create new user and set his password with non-default keyboard layout (czech for example) I can't log in with this user if there are some non-english characters like § in password.

system: Fedora 19 - gdm-3.7.91-1.fc19.x86_64
Comment 1 Allan Day 2013-06-12 04:39:01 UTC 
I'm surprised that you were able to set a password with non-ascii characters. How did you create the user account?

Also, I thought that it was possible to switch input methods in the login screen. How many input methods did you have enabled? If more than one, was the input method menu visible in the top bar during login?
Comment 2 Allan Day 2013-06-12 21:31:04 UTC 
Bug 696191 and bug 696193 are relevant.
Comment 3 Michael Catanzaro 2016-01-05 20:39:36 UTC 
You can switch to any system keyboard layout. The problem is that user keyboard layouts are completely separate from system layouts. The only bug I see is that it's far too confusing.

This works in Ubuntu because lightdm gets users' keyboard layouts from Ubuntu's patched accountsservice, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63086
Comment 4 Michael Catanzaro 2016-01-05 20:47:14 UTC 
(In reply to Petr Schindler from comment #0)
> When I create new user and set his password with non-default keyboard layout
> (czech for example) I can't log in with this user if there are some
> non-english characters like § in password.

I have no clue if input methods work in gdm, but that would be the province of one of the bugs Allan listed.

Hence I will dup this against bug #618957, for the confusing keyboard layout situation.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 618957 ***