How to change keyboard language on login screen??

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How to change keyboard language on login screen??

Postby dancer_69 on Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:16 pm

I just installed LMDE, and I cannot login to the system because the default keyboard language isn' t English.
I tried many compintations like both shift, ctrl+shift, ctrl+space, both alt, both ctrl.... but none work.
I cannot login even from tty console, because and there default is my native language and not english.
Is there any compination to change keyboard' s layout that I'm missing?
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Re: How to change keyboard language on login screen??

Postby maxic on Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:33 pm

+1. Same situation. I think setup should set English by default for login screen.
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Re: How to change keyboard language on login screen??

Postby äxl on Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:26 pm

Alt+Shift is to switch between keyboard layouts. But only when you have several set.

I only know one way to adjust: the XServer
You have to somehow reach your LMDE filesystem. Either by live CD (maybe even chroot) or from another OS (with Windows you need ext4 drivers ...)

If you come to it edit the file
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/etc/X11/xorg.conf

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Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
        Option          "XkbOptions"    ""
EndSection

Look here for individual setting http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/i ... onfig.html
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Re: How to change keyboard language on login screen??

Postby dancer_69 on Thu Apr 12, 2012 7:30 pm

I found easier to reinstall and choose english, but now I have another problem. I cannot change the interface language, the Language option is missed from control center.

EDIT:
Seems that this can change only by dpkg-reconfigure locales, and still many elements are in english, included mintmenu
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Re: How to change keyboard language on login screen??

Postby äxl on Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:33 pm

dancer_69 wrote:I found easier to reinstall and choose english

You reinstalled Mint?
Or maybe you could explain what you reinstalled for maxic and other users and myself?

but now I have another problem. I cannot change the interface language, the Language option is missed from control center.

EDIT:
Seems that this can change only by dpkg-reconfigure locales, and still many elements are in english, included mintmenu

Is this helping:
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sudo apt-get install language-env
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