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      type="topic" style="task"
      id="keyboard-layout">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="login#management" />
    <revision pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-29" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>minnie_eg</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
      <years>2012</years>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
      <years>2012</years>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Petr Kovar</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
      <years>2014</years>
    </credit>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <desc>Populate the keyboard layout chooser on the login screen.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Display multiple keyboard layouts on the login screen</title>

  <comment>
    <cite date="2012-12-02" href="mailto:[email protected]">Amany El-Guindy</cite>
    <p>This assumes the reader knows how to edit files as root. The reader
    will be able to add a list of keyboard layouts to the login screen, so that
    usernames/passwords of different languages other than the default can be
    typed.</p>
  </comment>

  <p>You can change the system keyboard layout settings to add alternative
  keyboard layouts for users to choose from on the login screen. This can be
  helpful for users who normally use different keyboard layouts from the default
  and who want to have those keyboard layouts available at the login screen.</p>

  <steps>
    <title>Change the system keyboard layout settings</title>
    <item>
      <p>Find the codes of the desired language layouts in the
      <file>/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst</file> file under the section
      named <sys>! layout</sys>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Use the <cmd>localectl</cmd> tool to change the system keyboard
        layout settings as follows:</p>
      <screen><cmd>localectl set-x11-keymap <var>layout</var></cmd></screen>
      <p>You can specify multiple layouts as a comma-separated list. For example,
        to set <sys>es</sys> as the default layout, and <sys>us</sys>
        as the secondary layout, run the following command:
      </p>
      <screen><output>$ </output><input>localectl set-x11-keymap es,us</input></screen>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Log out to find that the defined layouts are available at the top bar
      on the login screen.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>
  <p>Note that you can also use the <cmd>localectl</cmd> tool to specify
    the machine-wide default keyboard model, variant, and options. See the
    <cmd>localectl</cmd>(1) man page for more information.</p>

  <section id="keyboard-layout-no-localectl">
  <title>Display multiple keyboard layouts without using localectl</title>

  <p>On systems that do not provide the <cmd>localectl</cmd> tool, you can
  change the system keyboard layout settings by editing a configuration file in
  <file>/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/</file>.</p>

  <steps>
    <title>Change the system keyboard layout settings</title>
    <item>
      <p>Find the codes of the desired language layouts in the
      <file>/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst</file> file under the section
      named <sys>! layout</sys>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Add the layout codes to
      <file>/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf</file> in the following
      way:</p>
<screen>
Section "InputClass"
  Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
  MatchIsKeyboard "on"
  MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
  Driver "evdev"
  <input>Option "XkbLayout" "en,fr"</input>
EndSection
</screen>
      <p>Multiple layouts can be added as a comma separated list, as shown in
      the example for English (<sys>en</sys>) and French (<sys>fr</sys>)
      layouts.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Log out to find that the defined layouts are available at the top bar
      on the login screen.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  </section>

</page>