[PATCH] Reset keyboard layout before lock.

Submitted by Gilboa Davara

Assigned to Xfce Bug Triage

Link to original bug (#10526)

Description

Created attachment 5253 Use xkbmap to reset layout before unlock

xscreensaver doesn't have keyboard layout support by design. As such, trying to guess which current keyboard layout is active when unlocking the screen is a very annoying experience.

The following minor patch (Based on this [1] solution) simply switches the current keyboard layout to US, without breaking the keyboard layout configuration.

At least as far as I can test, this (very minor) patch works just fine on multiple machines - and should not break anything - including non-English passwords.

• Gilboa [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/xfce/comments/11yi34/reset_the_keyboard_layout_on_xscreensaver_lock/

Patch 5253, "Use xkbmap to reset layout before unlock":
xflock4.patch

Version: 4.10.1