Explicitly set the keyboard layout

 Ported from slick-greeter:

 Author: Clement Lefebvre <clement.lefebvre@linuxmint.com>
 Date:   Sat Jun 10 15:57:49 2017 +0100

    Explicitly set the keyboard layout

    The keyboard layout isn't properly set by default in some case.

    This affects wireless Logitech keyboards in particular, and it results
    in the greeter using an American layout instead of the layout chosen
    during the installation.

1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions

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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+import sys
+import os
+import syslog
+import subprocess
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+    try:
+
+        # Exit if something is missing
+        for required_file in ["/etc/default/keyboard", "/usr/bin/setxkbmap"]:
+            if not os.path.exists(required_file):
+                syslog.syslog("%s not found." % required_file)
+                sys.exit(0)
+
+        # Log current keyboard configuration
+        output = subprocess.check_output(["setxkbmap", "-query"]).decode("UTF-8")
+        syslog.syslog("Current keyboard configuration: %s" % output)
+
+        # Parse keyboard configuration file
+        XKBMODEL = ""
+        XKBLAYOUT = ""
+        XKBVARIANT = ""
+        XKBOPTIONS = ""
+        with open("/etc/default/keyboard", "r") as keyboard:
+            for line in keyboard:
+                line = line.strip()
+                if "XKBMODEL=" in line:
+                    XKBMODEL = line.split('=')[1].replace('"', '')
+                if "XKBLAYOUT=" in line:
+                    XKBLAYOUT = line.split('=')[1].replace('"', '')
+                if "XKBVARIANT=" in line:
+                    XKBVARIANT = line.split('=')[1].replace('"', '')
+                if "XKBOPTIONS=" in line:
+                    XKBOPTIONS = line.split('=')[1].replace('"', '')
+
+            # Apply keyboard configuration
+            command = ["setxkbmap", "-model", XKBMODEL, "-layout", XKBLAYOUT, "-variant", XKBVARIANT, "-option", XKBOPTIONS, "-v"]
+            syslog.syslog("Applying keyboard configuration: %s" % command)
+            output = subprocess.check_output(command).decode("UTF-8")
+            syslog.syslog("Result: %s" % output)
+
+        # Log new keyboard configuration
+        output = subprocess.check_output(["setxkbmap", "-query"]).decode("UTF-8")
+        syslog.syslog("New keyboard configuration: %s" % output)
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        # best effort, syslog it and bail out
+        syslog.syslog("ERROR: %s" % e)
+
+    sys.exit(0)