Keyboard issue ?

[gigaturbo]

Hi !

I'm trying to use the mini-greeter but I can't log in : when I enter my password nothing happens. I'm using an azerty/french keyboard, so I was wondering if it can be the cause of my problem.

[prikhi]

Hi, have you reviewed the Configure section of the README? Specifically, you currently have to set the user field of the greeter's config and possibly the user-session in lightdm's configuration.

[prikhi]

To clarify, when you say "when I enter my password nothing happens", do you mean when you type your password in no characters appear in the input, or when you hit enter to try to log in with it nothing happens?

[gigaturbo]

Nothing happens when I hit enter. I can type my password but I can't see if I'm typing right because the characters are hidden.

[gigaturbo]

I recently reinstalled my computer so I tried to setup lightdm-mini-greeter again but I still have the keyboard problem. What I have done :

• set lightdm to use lightdm-mini-greeter
• set the user parameter to my username ;
• set the user-session to my WM (dwm) ;
• created the dwm.desktop file in /etc/xsessions ;
• added the lightdm service to run at startup ;

What happens :

• ~the greeter starts, I can type almost any character (the password string length increases) except the AltGr+* characters (the length stay the same), hence I cannot enter my password.~ Solved by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keymap.conf
• ~I can type all the characters but when pressing Return nothing happens (no 'Invalid Password') ;~ Solved. I had a problem with my windows manager not starting (hence password was correct by the session wasn't starting).

What I tried :

• ~as I need a French keyboard layout I used to set it up in /etc/vconsole.conf (for the tty, GRUB) and .xprofile (for the X session) using setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout fr,us -option grp:caps_toggle grp_led:caps (before using lightdm-mini-greeter) ;~
• ~now I tried to put the setxkbmap command in the .Xmodmap file and running this file from /etc/lightdm/Xsession but I still cannot type AltGr+* characters.~

[gigaturbo]

Solved by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keymap.conf :

Section "InputClass"
  Identifier "system-keyboard"
  MatchIsKeyboard "on"
  Option  "XkbModel"    "pc105"
  Option  "XkbLayout"   "fr,us"
  Option  "XkbOptions"  "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps"
EndSection

[prikhi]

Solved

Sweet, I had no idea how to test this without buying a keyboard lol. Would you be into making a PR adding a sub-section for this to the Configure section of the readme?