Wrong keyboard layout on login (azerty needed)

[Steve92]

Hello!

I’m testing NoMachine (free last release 6.12.3_7_amd64, .DEB file) to acces a VPS under “Debian 10” with LXDE from a “Windows 8.1” client.

NoMachine gives very good perfomances even with low bandwidth but I meet a very annoying problem with keyboard layout on Debian login page.

Despite many tests with supposed solutions given on this forum and elsewhere, I always get a “qwerty” keyboard instead of “azerty” (french).

I’ve tested this with NO SUCCESS:

In  /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Add:
—
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Generic Keyboard”
Driver “kbd”
Option “CoreKeyboard”
Option “XkbRules” “xorg”
Option “XkbModel” “pc105”
Option “XkbLayout” “fr”
Option “XkbVariant” “latin9”
Option “XkbOptions” “lv3:ralt_switch”
EndSection
—

“Command localectl set-x11-keymap fr would set the Xorg keyboard layout to French (automatically creating the config file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf).”
=> no file created
Manually create “00-keyboard.conf” with lines:
—
Section “InputClass”
Identifier “system-keyboard”
MatchIsKeyboard “on”
Option “XkbLayout” “fr”
EndSection
—
KO ! still have qwerty keyboard. :o(

…and other tests…

It’s crazy to spend so much time with a setting that should be very simple !

I have no problem with [removed], [removed], [removed]…

I’m very frustrated… What could I do ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Steve.

[graywolf]

Hello.
I think you encountered the issue described in this topic: Some issue with Keyboard mapping

and here: Keyboard layout is wrong when sharing a physical desktop which explains that it is not a NoMachine issue.

[Steve92]

Hello,

After many hours of research on the Web, I finally found this solution, at display manager level, to get “azerty” (french) keyboard when login to Debian 10:
– edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
– under the section [Seat:*] add:
display-setup-script=setxkbmap fr

 

#Free bonus ! 🙂

To get an ‘azerty’ keyboard after Debian  login
in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
add: setxkbmap -layout “fr,fr”

It seems so simple once you have the solution. :o)

I hope it will help all people who need “azerty” keyboard ! 😉

Regards,

Steve.

[Britgirl]

Thanks for posting 🙂

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