#1143945 cinnamon - wrong default keyboard layout with sysvinit

Package:
cinnamon
Source:
cinnamon
Description:
Innovative and comfortable desktop
Submitter:
Franz Hubert
Date:
2026-08-09 18:35:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1143945#5
Date:
2026-08-08 18:38:05 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

With cinnamon desktop, if sysvinit is used, the default keyboard layout
is 'us' - and the XKBLAYOUT setting in /etc/default/keyboard is ignored.
To verify: change XKBLAYOUT in /etc/default/keyboard to another layout
(such as 'es' or 'de'), then add a new user and log in.  The new user
will have a 'us' keyboard layout.  With systemd, the new user will have
the layout specified in /etc/default/keyboard.  I believe this may be
due to sysvinit missing dbus-user-session (?).
#1143945#10
Date:
2026-08-09 18:34:27 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

My initial suspicion was incorrect, regarding dbus-user-session.
Non-US cinnamon keyboard layout is correct with systemd, even with
dbus-user-session removed.  Nevertheless, it is incorrect with sysvinit.