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I switched from Qwerty to Dvorak, but the login screen still uses Qwerty.

How can I configure the login screen to use Dvorak?

Lekensteyn
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In Ubuntu / Natty, edit the file /etc/default/keyboard, look for the XKBVARIANT setting, and set it to this:

XKBVARIANT="dvorak"

This will tell GDM, the login manager, which keyboard layout to use per default.

Note: the comments in the file warn that this only takes effect after udev is restarted; I would just reboot the machine after changing it.

Eric
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