On Sat, 27 Dec 2025, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 27 Dec 2025 at 12:31:57 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > > David Wright (HE12025-12-24): > > > It could indeed, which would mean lightdm's creators introduced a > > > third selection to potentially contradict the other two. > > > > Not a “third” selection, a *stateful* selection. Stateful system state > > is one of the worst fake-good ideas of computing. > > From the OP's description I got the impression the keyboard > layout was configured rather than stateful. AIUI, stateful > is where it remembers a /user's/ previous selection (like > too often happens with printer queues). Here, I don't think > the OP was able to make a selection as a user, but had to > have write access to system directories.
(I am the OP) Exactly. I follow this discussion with much interest. In particular I no longer see « keyboard layout is a part of locale » being treated as a heresy. Roger
