[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#802123: lightdm ignores system keyboard settings

[pberger]

Package: lightdm
Version: 1.10.3-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I installed Debian Jessie with LXDE and selected FR as keyboard layout during the install.

However lightdm ignores my choice and starts me up with a US keyboard layout.

The system settings is set properly in /etc/default/keyboard:

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pierre at pierre-desktop:~$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="fr"
XKBVARIANT="latin9"
XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

BACKSPACE="guess"
####################################################

And if I switch to command line mode (Ctl-Alt-F1), the keyboard layout is correct ; it's only lightdm that ignores this setting.

I worked around the issue by adding 'setxkbmap -layout fr' to my /etc/X11/Xsession.d ; however this is only sourced after login, so the login screen is still using US keyboard which is uncool. In any case I think something wrong is going on as lightdm should probably use system settings by default.

Cheers,
Pierre

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lightdm depends on:
ii  adduser                                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                                   1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                  1.5.56
ii  libc6                                  2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libgcrypt20                            1.6.3-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                           2.42.1-1
ii  libpam-systemd                         215-17+deb8u2
ii  libpam0g                               1.1.8-3.1
ii  libxcb1                                1.10-3+b1
ii  libxdmcp6                              1:1.1.1-1+b1
ii  lightdm-gtk-greeter [lightdm-greeter]  1.8.5-2

Versions of packages lightdm recommends:
ii  xserver-xorg  1:7.7+7

Versions of packages lightdm suggests:
pn  accountsservice  <none>
pn  upower           <none>

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: lightdm
  lightdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/lightdm