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unity-greeter package

unity-greeter messes with system-wide keyboard configuration

Bug #1065030 reported by Ivan Osadchii
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Symptoms:

I want to set system-wide keyboard options. I edit /etc/default/keyboard and reboot. When I log back my changes are not in effect.

Running `sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change --verbose` fixes things: keyboard configuration changes are applied. Running `sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration` also helps. Obviously both work only until next reboot/logout.

Why I think this bug is related to unity-greeter: changing display manager to gdm or to lightdm with lightdm-gtk-greeter makes the problem vanish.

I'm using Awesome WM but default Unity desktop is also affected: while I can change keyboard options in Settings -> Keyboard layout, I still cannot apply system-wide settings from /etc/default/keyboard

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity-greeter 0.2.8-0ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic-pae 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 10 16:02:04 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120822.4)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-greeter
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Ivan Osadchii (tepoga) wrote :
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Ivan Osadchii (tepoga) wrote :

As a workaround I added session-setup-script to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:

# /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
session-setup-script=/etc/lightdm/session-setup-script.sh

# /etc/lightdm/session-setup-script.sh
/sbin/udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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James Wilson (jmwilson) wrote :

Still happening through 15.04. Set XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:swapcaps" in /etc/default/keyboard, and did dpkg-recofigure + udevadm trigger commands, and also reboots. Everything is fine in virtual conoles and once logged in, but in the greeter the setting is never applied.

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