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I added indicators=keyboard to /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf and a keyboard chooser appears, but I cannot for the life of me get it to list multiple keyboard layouts. I am on Lubuntu 14.04. Have tried using unity-control-center to add a layout. Adding a layout to my ibus. Tried forcing the gsettings on the lightdm user (they seem to get regenerated / overwritten on reboot). I did this to my /etc/default/keyboard:

XKBMODEL="pc105,pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us,us"
XKBVARIANT="dvorak,"

If I invert the order of those pairs then I get QWERTY only option in lightdm, and if I have them like this I get the Dvorak only option in the drop-down, but I still cannot find a way to make it list both of them.

I have multiple users on this computer that each prefer to type passwords with a different layout, so I really need this feature.

Does anyone know how to do this?

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You can make lightdm-gtk-greeter show a keyboard layout menu in the top right panel. One way to do it is to create a file in the /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.d folder and list a custom selection of indicators to be shown:

$ cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.d/50-modify-indicators.conf
[greeter]
indicators = ~host;~spacer;~session;~language;~layout;~a11y;~clock;~power

(The ~layout option represents the keyboard layout menu.)

One disadvantage is that the menu lists all available (i.e. quite a few) keyboard layouts, so even if you can switch keyboard layout that way, it's not very convenient.

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  • @Anwar: To be honest I'm not quite happy with the solution; there ought to be something better.
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Sep 5, 2016 at 13:47
  • If you read my question you'll note I have the keyboard indicator added already. I want to know how to get this indicator to list multiple layouts.
    – singpolyma
    Sep 5, 2016 at 16:28
  • @singpolyma: You wrote that you added indicators=keyboard which does not sound right to me. So maybe you should try the above?
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Sep 5, 2016 at 16:36
  • using ~layout instead shows nothing. I'm on 14.04 -- using keyboard works, but only shows a single layout (the default xkb option)
    – singpolyma
    Sep 6, 2016 at 0:19
  • @singpolyma: Tested my answer on 14.04 and can confirm that ~layout doesn't work there for me either. Then I tested with keyboard, which works for me on both 14.04 and 16.04; actually it works better, because the list of options consists of actually added layouts, not all the available ones. I have only tested on Ubuntu, though, not Lubuntu. Guess I should edit my answer, but haven't time to do it right now.
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Sep 6, 2016 at 20:09

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