Misspelled password

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2023-04-01 at 15:01 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> I suspect that because the *keyboard* layouts are different and Ralf
> is using a "special" key that is mapped differently to different keys.
> It is probably not really two different passwords, just different
> physical keys to produce the same key-code. (Yes, there is a bug, just
> at a different place -- the keyboard layout really should NOT be
> changing between the Xfce session and the login greeter. Either the
> login greeter has a bug, or Xfce has a bug.)
> 
> And yes, he needs to report this and it should be fixed.

Hi,

your guess is correct. Usually I use

   $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf 
   Section "InputClass"
          Identifier "keyboard"
          MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
          Option "XkbLayout" "de"
          #Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
   EndSection

to set the keyboard layout globally.

The xfce4-keyboard-settings affect only the user session. The display
manager is much likely LightDM, if so the greeter likely allows to
enable a drop-down menu that provides a selection of different keyboard
layouts.

I don't call this "issue" a bug.

Regards,
Ralf