Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/949001
Title:
Add keyboard layout on the login screen
Status in Unity Greeter:
New
Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Currently the keyboard layout chooser in the top bar of unity-greeter
(precise beta 1) shows the default system keyboard layout and/or the
keyboard layout of already-logged-on users. The list is missing an
"add keyboard layout" option.
I have LDAP-based users and I am deploying the same Ubuntu image to
all the machines. Users are from multiple countries, so they use
multiple keyboard layouts. I provide a default, but this is not ok for
some instances. Because the user has never logged on before, he can't
choose his keyboard layout, because it's not there. This is a chicken-
and-egg problem.
Therefore, a feature to add an arbitrary keyboard layout to the list
while on the logon screen is essential. This is already in GDM.
Alternatively, I would need to provide a subset of keyboard layouts
for the countries I will deploy Ubuntu in, but as far as I know the
default list only contains the single system default layout.
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