Subject: Re: bug#26234: SLIM, SDDM can only be used with en_US keyboard layout

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:18:50 +0100

Hello,

ng0 <[email-masked]> skribis:

> If this is a duplicate bug, close it.
>
> Currently SLIM (and SDDM) do neither respect nor offer an option to
> select a keyboard layout other than "en_US".
>
> **
>
> Expected fix is that display managers (SDDM, SLIM, future ones) can be
> configured to let users choose the language/keyboard layout of their choice.

It’s been a while :-), but this is fixed by
598757e038ab5dea3b59c9c248a2ad860c41fe62, which lets you choose the Xorg
keyboard layout (this was already possible before actually, but a bit
more involved.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.