I was about to open a bug just like this one. In my opinion, the keyboard configuration program should have a way of setting user's preferred keyboard, which applies to GDM as well. My situation was the follows: GNOME always came up with USA keyboard layout, which I then fixed every time by going to the keyboard settings and removing the stupid USA layout and keeping Finnish. This went on for months and frustration mounted. I did everything I thought I could to force Finnish layout to come up by default, including the "apply system- wide" option, but no go, USA layout always appeared.
I finally realized that GDM has 3 controls in the taskpanel area which I never noticed before because they only appear once I have selected an user account and my eyes were invariably focused on the password prompt. One of them is the layout, and it held my hated "USA" choice. In my experience, having the default come from GDM but having no obvious way to adjust the default from within GNOME is a bug, and there are probably more users like me who can't figure out why GNOME always selects the wrong keyboard layout for them. -- GDM should use the preferred layout of the user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478974 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
