Re: dpkg-reconfigure unable to change greeter locale
On Sun, 21 Dec 2025, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 20/12/2025 23:47, john doe wrote:
> > On 12/20/25 4:58 PM, Roger Price wrote:
> > > However the final user needs a "french" machine, so I ran
> > > dpkg-reconfigure locale and specified fr_FR .
> From my point of view it looks more like user's confusion rather than a bug.
> First of all, keyboard-configuration is orthogonal to locales.
The keyboard is very much part of the locale. dpkg-reconfigure locale
automatically changes the keyboard for the user's applications, including ssh.
My problem is that this did not extend to the greeter.
> Next, lightdm-gtk-greeter allows to select keyboard layout and locale.
On my Debian 13.2 Xfce installation lightdm-gtk-greeter is able to change the
"Appearance/Panel/Window position/Misc" i.e. "Font/Time/position/Accessibility"
but no change to keyboard layout.
Roger
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