On 12/20/25 4:58 PM, Roger Price wrote:
I installed Debian 13.2 on a modest Packard Bell desktop using the default locale en_US and a QWERTY keyboard. All went well. However the final user needs a "french" machine, so I ran dpkg-reconfigure locale and specified fr_FR . All the applications changed to french, and I can now use a french AZERTY keyboard, including with ssh. I can type an ssh password using the AZERTY keyboard.But lightdm does not change. The initial login to the greeter still requires a QWERTY, and command localectl status reports: root@carros ~ localectl status System Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 VC Keymap: (unset) X11 Layout: us X11 Model: pc105 This looks like a bug in dpkg-reconfigure. My attempt to get locatectl to repair the damage failed: root@carros ~ localectl set-x11-keymap fr Failed to set keymap: Access denied I found a fix. Following advice from 2014 at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/130858/change-the-keyboard-layout-in-lightdm I defined file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-keyboard.conf : Section "InputClass" Identifier "keyboard" MatchIsKeyboard "yes" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" EndSection I then logged out and in again and now the greeter works correctly with the AZERTY keyboard, but localectl status still shows "X11 layout: us". Although I have a fix, I still think this looks like a bug in dpkg-reconfigure.
You should realy file a bug report.. -- John Doe
