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, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/arctica-greeter.vala b/src/arctica-greeter.vala
index 94a1eb0..2def301 100644
--- a/src/arctica-greeter.vala
+++ b/src/arctica-greeter.vala
@@ -580,6 +580,16 @@ public class ArcticaGreeter
         greeter_ready ();
     }
 
+    private static void set_keyboard_layout ()
+    {
+        try {
+            Process.spawn_command_line_sync(Path.build_filename (Config.PKGLIBEXECDIR, "arctica-greeter-set-keyboard-layout"), null, null, null);
+        }
+        catch (Error e){
+            warning ("Error while setting the keyboard layout: %s", e.message);
+        }
+    }
+
     private static void activate_numlock ()
     {
         try {
@@ -651,6 +661,9 @@ public class ArcticaGreeter
         if (do_test_mode)
             debug ("Running in test mode");
 
+        /* Set the keyboard layout */
+        set_keyboard_layout ();
+
         /* Set the numlock state */
         if (AGSettings.get_boolean (AGSettings.KEY_ACTIVATE_NUMLOCK)) {
             debug ("Activating numlock");