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Date:      Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:39:26 +0100
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <opsyspref@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: German keyboard support for gdm???
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So now,

I couldn't solve my problem with gdm but after some failed experiments with
some more login-managers (xdm, lightdm, slim) I found x11/sddm .
When I edit the file /usr/local/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup by adding the line
  setxkbmap de,us
and reboot, I get a language selector with DE and US keyboard.
I think that's as simple as it should be.

Greetings

Peter

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 5:04 AM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa <opsyspref@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> does anyone know how to make gnome's display manager gdm understand german
> keyboard input?
> I can find many discussions, hints and ideas in the web, but whatever I
> try, gdm stubbornly insists on using en_US default keyboard.
>
> I am running gdm-3.16.4_3 from ports on FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE amd64 .
> My german keyboard is supported on console and "inside" Gnome 3 , but not
> on gdm's username/password dialog.
>
> Thanks an greetings
>
> Peter
>



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