Wrong keyboard layout in lightdm for (k)ubuntu

I’ve had this annoying thing about my keyboard layout being US for my login window in Kubuntu 12.10. This happened after I got a new wireless keyboard with this unifying usb thing at work. I recently upgraded to 13.04 and the error followed, so I dug up the workaround / fix at bugs.launchpad.net .
My fix was adding this to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[...]
display-setup-script=setxkbmap no
[...]

2 comments on “Wrong keyboard layout in lightdm for (k)ubuntu

  1. jeus June 9, 2014 8:59 am

    I use i3 and this command solve my problem .
    after use this command “setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,ir
    ” no change in keyboard.
    after this config “display-setup-script=setxkbmap no” all things do OK

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