Bug#913531: gdm3: Keyboard layout order given by XKBLAYOUT in /etc/default/keyboard is ignored if us layout present.

[Joachim Falk]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.30.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

Dear Debian maintainer of gdm3,

there is a problem with gdm3 on a fresh buster netinstall. If multiple keyboard layouts are
selected, e.g., de,us or fr,us, in /etc/default/keyboard like

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="de,us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"

then gdm3 will always start with the us layout even if de or fr is present first.
However, XKBLAYOUT="de,fr" or XKBLAYOUT="fr,de" work as expected and GDM3, respectively,
starts with a german or french layout.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                       0.6.45-1
ii  adduser                               3.118
ii  dconf-cli                             0.30.0-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend               0.30.0-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                 1.5.69
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                        3.30.1-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]     3.30.1-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                     3.30.1-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                 3.30.1.2-1
ii  gnome-shell                           3.30.1-2
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.30.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas             3.28.1-1
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulator]         4:18.04.0-1
ii  kwin-x11 [x-window-manager]           4:5.13.5-1+b1
ii  libaccountsservice0                   0.6.45-1
ii  libaudit1                             1:2.8.4-2
ii  libc6                                 2.27-8
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                    0.30-6
ii  libcanberra0                          0.30-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                    2.38.0+dfsg-6
ii  libgdm1                               3.30.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                          2.58.1-2
ii  libglib2.0-bin                        2.58.1-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                            3.24.1-2
ii  libkeyutils1                          1.5.9-9.3
ii  libpam-modules                        1.1.8-3.8
ii  libpam-runtime                        1.1.8-3.8
ii  libpam-systemd                        239-11
ii  libpam0g                              1.1.8-3.8
ii  librsvg2-common                       2.40.20-3
ii  libselinux1                           2.8-1+b1
ii  libsystemd0                           239-11
ii  libwrap0                              7.6.q-27
ii  libx11-6                              2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxau6                               1:1.0.8-1+b2
ii  libxcb1                               1.13.1-1
ii  libxdmcp6                             1:1.1.2-3
ii  lsb-base                              9.20170808
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]             3.30.1-2
ii  plasma-workspace [x-session-manager]  4:5.13.5-1+b1
ii  policykit-1                           0.105-21
ii  procps                                2:3.3.15-2
ii  ucf                                   3.0038
ii  x11-common                            1:7.7+19
ii  x11-xserver-utils                     7.7+8
ii  xfce4-session [x-session-manager]     4.12.1-6
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  0.8.7.4-2
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-manager]              4.12.5-1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core    2.30.0-4
ii  desktop-base    9.0.7
ii  x11-xkb-utils   7.7+4
ii  xserver-xephyr  2:1.20.3-1
ii  xserver-xorg    1:7.7+19
ii  zenity          3.30.0-1

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn  gnome-orca            <none>
pn  libpam-fprintd        <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.28.2-1

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3