How do I change the login manager's keyboard layout?

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Manu

I have a netbook with an AZERTY layout. I've changed it to "bépo" to try it, but now I've reset it to a french layout.

While all the apps have taken the change into account, Ubuntu's login manager still uses bépo, making entering passwords a challenge. I've enabled the virtual keyboard for the time being so that I could login again.

I don't remember what I had done in the first place to switch the login screen to bépo, but now I can't switch it back.

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EDIT : In the keyboard settings page, if I click "use system defaults", then everything is in bépo ! Where is this different keyboard layout set ?

ANOTHER EDIT : Here's what did not work :

Changing the layout in settings
using the "use system defaults" checkbox in settings
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
changing it in Xconf
adding a line in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
slaming head against desk
dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
sudo gsettings set org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard layouts "['fr']"
combinations of the above

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Is it possible to relaunch the keyboard configuration tool that's in ubuntu's setup ? The thing has automatic layout detection and it changes the setting everywhere.

Manu

Must have been a weird lightdm bug.

Lightdm got the new keyboard layout once I changed the login manager to gdm, then back to lightdm, even though simply doing dpkg-reconfigure lightdm did nothing.

So here it is :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gdm

(set gdm as the login manager when asked)

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

(set it as the login manager when asked)

sudo apt-get remove gdm

Then, restart.

Changing a keyboard layout in linux is serious business.

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edited at2021-03-5

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