I have what seems to be the same problem. I configured my keyboard layout to French, and it works both under the console and under a Xubuntu (XFCE) session, but not on the lightdm login screen. This makes it a mess to type in my password.
Really, this bug should be marked as critical, as it's a huge usability roadblock for anyone with a non-US keyboard (and there are millions of us). (this is with Xubuntu 12.04, all current updates applied) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919200 Title: Doesn't know system default layout/variant Status in Light Display Manager: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: lightdm_get_layout does not return the correct system default keyboard layout/variant. For that, pitti says we need to access xkl_config->layouts[0]/xkl_config->variants[0]. Currently, we just grab the first layout returned from xkl_config_registry_foreach_layout, which only returns the available layouts, not the configured layouts. So "us" will always be first there. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/919200/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
