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zuba
Asked: 2014-01-30 17:24:54 +0800 CST

How to specify in password input dialog the language always to be English?

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In Gnome I often enter sudo password when Russian language is being selected. It's so annoying to wait for password verification fail, to switch to English and retype the password!

Is there a way to force English in password input dialog? Especially on logon screen.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Using gsettings

    It works well with Gnome/Unity Indicator/Layout switch on Ubuntu 13.10 or later.

    Run gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.input-sources to check your active layouts and input systems.

    Problems:

    In lock dialog case, it is unable to restore last used keyboard. So after unlock always en

    • For sudo (Alias)

      nano ~/.bashrc

      Append this line

      alias sudo="sudo_success='' ; last_kbd=`gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current | awk '{print $2}'` ; gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current 0 ; sudo echo -n  && sudo_success='1' ; gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current $last_kbd ; test $sudo_success && sudo"

    • For lock dialog (Proxy)

      cd /usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/
sudo mv gnome-screensaver-dialog gnome-screensaver-dialog_orig
sudo nano gnome-screensaver-dialog_proxy

      Put this in:

      #!/usr/bin/env bash
last_kbd=`gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current | awk '{print $2}'`
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current 0
/usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver-dialog_orig $@
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current $last_kbd

      Fix a link:

      sudo chown root:root gnome-screensaver-dialog_proxy
sudo chmod +x root:root gnome-screensaver-dialog_proxy
sudo ln -s gnome-screensaver-dialog_proxy gnome-screensaver-dialog

    Old answer using setxkbmap

    Use it, only if your layouts is set with setxkbmap command.

    Complete steps are mentioned above. I kept only different steps. I am using us,ara (English, Arabic), run setxkbmap -query to check yours.

    Problems:

    setxkbmap change layout at X level, which does override effective Unity/Gnome layout. Indicator keep showing last layout. Also it breaks some layout switching keyboard shortcuts. To avoid that add your shortcuts options to setxkbmap command. Example: setxkbmap us,ara -option grp:rshift_toggle -option grp:rctrl_switch.

    In lock dialog case, it is unable to restore last used keyboard.

    • For sudo

      nano ~/.bashrc

      Append this line

      alias sudo="sudo_success='' ; last_kbd=$(setxkbmap -query | awk 'FNR == 3 {print $2}') ; setxkbmap us,ara ; sudo echo -n && sudo_success='1' ; setxkbmap $last_kbd ; test $sudo_success && sudo"

    • For lock dialog

      nano gnome-screensaver-dialog_proxy

      Put this in:

      #!/usr/bin/env bash
last_kbd=$(setxkbmap -query | awk 'FNR == 3 {print $2}')
setxkbmap us,ara
/usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver-dialog_orig $@
setxkbmap $last_kbd
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