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whyer
Asked: 2019-12-30 02:39:55 +0800 CST

How to automatically switch keyboard layout to English on screen lock?

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I'd like my Ubuntu to automatically switch my keyboard layout to English each time I lock the screen, so that I wouldn't have to do it manually each time to enter my password. How do I do that?

Also, I'd like that my keyboard layout also be English each time after I unlock the screen. Is it possible?

gnome keyboard-layout login lock-screen

1 Answers

  1. Just bumped into the same problem, use xkblayout-state tool like this (assuming 0 is the default En keyboard layout)

    xkblayout-state set 0

    then you can first change the keyboard layout to the default and launch screenlocker like this

     xkblayout-state set 0 && screen_locker
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