Again, the fix is easy: always change the layout back to default when
locking the screen, or before presenting the login applet. The initial
login also has the default layout, the changed layout is not relevant
for logging back in. As a additional service to the user, you could
switch the layout
PROPOSED FIX
The current popup shows:
Information: Username, Current keyboard layout (also a button)
Buttons: Switch user, Unlock
When you click on Switch user, you end up at the correct behaviour: the
keyboard is switched back to the default layout, the same layout that
the user used to
After more than a year, may I suggest the right way of handling this?
The lockscreen password dialogue should default to the keyboard that the
current user uses for normal login, ie, the standard layout. Because that is
what that user normally would get for login, and it will work as always, as
@50 That is very strange, because Ctrl-Shift is no longer possible as a
key sequence since 13.10 onwards...
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Title:
I think this came up especially because the old language-agnostic ways of
changing layouts is no longer available. I used to use Shift+CapsLock, which
would be recognized in any layout. Unfortunately that is no longer possible.
Now I use Ctrl-` (which is something different in the main other
Standard new install of 14.04, bug on lockscreen is still there.
Clicking on the language button works, but the keyboard shortcut
doesn't.
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