Hi all, to change keyboard on login screen is sufficient click on kbd icon and choose the preferred keyboard; but how can I do that via terminal? I mean: to change clock settings, I just have to edit /etc/lightdm/slick-greeter.conf but for the kbd? The only way to do that is to edit /etc/default/k…

thanks, jlb it was only my laziness :face_with_peeking_eye: … just for avoiding to switch from us kbd to italian one in my custom live-dvd; but since it can start in english, italian, french, occitan, greek and german, the best is to leave it as is and remembering to set keyboard at first login …

[image] puffettacicciottella: custom live-dvd Off topic… is this based on 24.04 or later? Do you have a writeup / blog describing (step by step?) how you produced the custom iso? Thanks in advance.

Cubic (Custom Ubuntu ISO Creator) ?

'jour jlb, and fossfreedom in this last year I’m using Cubic for the same reason I’ve opened this thread … my laziness :wink: but until las year I was doing everything by myself; some time ago something went wrong in iso building part of the whole process and then I “switched” from Tilix to Cubic. …

[image] puffettacicciottella: […] if you want, I can share it here. Je veux, mon neveu ! :sweat_smile: — stupid popular French formula, you’d be more like a niece, but that doesn’t rhyme.

ok - cheers for the info - I was hoping you were using ubuntu-image for the modifications with a cloud-init script and xorriso to write the ISO. Ah well.

No, ok, sorry … I’ve tried (while eating my barley and spelt salad with seafood at my desk and instead of watching [part of] a movie as I’m used to during lunch break :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:) to follow my old bordereau but I’ve already faced several problems, first and most serious of which…

Keyboard on login screen

jlb May 24, 2025, 6:30am 2

Hi Sil,

Halfway between CLI and GUI, there is TUI:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

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Keyboard on login screen

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