Here's a list of the affected countries. All these people can't type
national characters unless they know how to go to gnome control center
and add their keyboard layout and their preferred switching method.
This is a serious regression, it used to work fine in gdm and in gdm2.
$ grep XKBLAYOUT=us, keyboard-configuration.config | sort -u
XKBLAYOUT=us,am # Armenia
XKBLAYOUT=us,ara # Arabic
XKBLAYOUT=us,bd # Bangladesh
XKBLAYOUT=us,bg # Bulgaria
XKBLAYOUT=us,bt # Bhutan
XKBLAYOUT=us,by # Belarus
XKBLAYOUT=us,ge # Georgia
XKBLAYOUT=us,gr # Greece
XKBLAYOUT=us,il # Israel
XKBLAYOUT=us,in # India
XKBLAYOUT=us,ir # Iran
XKBLAYOUT=us,kg # Kyrgyzstan
XKBLAYOUT=us,kh # Cambodia
XKBLAYOUT=us,kz # Kazakhstan
XKBLAYOUT=us,la # Laos
XKBLAYOUT=us,lk # Sri Lanka
XKBLAYOUT=us,ma # Morocco
XKBLAYOUT=us,mk # Macedonia
XKBLAYOUT=us,mn # Mongolia
XKBLAYOUT=us,np # Nepal
XKBLAYOUT=us,ru # Russia
XKBLAYOUT=us,si # Sri Lanka
XKBLAYOUT=us,th # Thailand
XKBLAYOUT=us,tj # Tajikistan
XKBLAYOUT=us,ua # Ukraine
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1051288
Title:
LightDM assumes there's only ONE system default layout
Status in Light Display Manager:
New
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
In Greece, the default system layout is "us,gr":
$ grep XKBLAYOUT /etc/default/keyboard
XKBLAYOUT="us,gr"
For new users that don't have .dmrc or accountsservice entries and are
supposed to get the system defaults, LightDM assumes their keyboard layout is
"us".
So they can't switch languages in the greeter and they can't input national
characters until they login, go to gnome settings and manually set the keyboard
layout.
A similar bug was
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/919200, but
that was only solved for the single-layout case.
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