(Excuse me for my bad English please)

Computer can be locked by Xscreensaver with different keyboard layouts.
For example, user has English and Russian layouts available,
and Russian was active before locking.
Then user decide to unlock stantion after some time.
At this moment user man not remember current layout.
User can enter password with wrong keyboard layout
and so he/she will lose some time for discovering that
current layout was incorrect for entering password.

It will be good if Xscreensaver will show current layout
at password prompt window. It also be good to show
Capslock indicator for same reason.

Regards, Sergey.

I'm not going to do that. It would clutter up the window, and it's probably hard to even know what layout is in use in any sensible, portable way.

If login fails, the error message already changes from "Authentication failed" to "Authentication failed (Caps Lock?)".

(But anyone sane has already disabled their caps-lock key entirely.)

If you don't want to add keyboard layour indicator, then either add a
button to reset keyboard layout to english, or add a field where one can
type to see current keyboard layout.

I have English, Ukrainian and Russian keyboard layouts and have to type
password three times almost always. Damn...


Thanks!

I agree, there should be a way to know which keyboard layout is being
used in the time of entering the password.

For example, I was using scroll-lock keyboard LED to indicate the
layout, but now there are no keyboard LEDs on my netbook, so I have this
problem too.

I tried to use xxkb for indication of the keyboard layout, but it
didn't help (it didn't show any indicator on the password prompt
window, no matter what XXkb.button.geometry I entered).

It's a big deal to enter long password without knowing if you have correct
layout.
portable way.

That's not a reason to make user's lives harder.
If it's not implemented, the only way for user is to change screensaver.

At least on ubuntu 14.04 with gnome the following worked for me:

   1. Created folder: mkdir ~/.startup
   2. And a file touch ~/.startup/xscreensaver-reset-kbd-us.pl
   3. Chmodded it chmod 755 ~/.startup/xscreensaver-reset-kbd-us.pl
   4.

   Edit (copy&paste the code below) gedit ~/.startup/
   xscreensaver-reset-kbd-us.pl

   #!/usr/bin/perl

   my $blanked = 0;
   open (IN, "xscreensaver-command -watch |");
   while (<IN>) {
       if (m/^(BLANK|LOCK)/) {
           if (!$blanked) {
              system "setxkbmap -layout us";
              $blanked = 1;
           }
       } elsif (m/^UNBLANK/) {
           system "setxkbmap -layout us,ru";
           $blanked = 0;
       }
   }

   5.

   Added the script to startup applications

It watches the events from xscreensaver and resets keyboard layout to
english only on lock, and adds the ru layout back upon unblank.

For an unknown reason I can't change the keyboard layout when xscreensaver
prompts for password. This helps.

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Hi,

I've created a patch that solves the keyboard layout problem described
in this bug report. Instead of just showing an indicator, the patch allows
users to configure which keyboard layout should be forced when entering
the password.

This completely eliminates the problem of entering passwords with the
wrong layout active - xscreensaver will always use the layout you specify
in the configuration, regardless of which layout was active when the screen
was locked.

The patch adds:
- New configuration parameter: passwdKeyboardGroup (-1=disabled, 0-3=XKB group)
- GUI control in xscreensaver-settings (Advanced tab)
- Uses XKB API to force the specified keyboard layout

Please see bug #1125988 for the full patch and details:
https://bugs.debian.org/1125988

Merge request: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xscreensaver/-/merge_requests/8

I'd be grateful if anyone could test this patch and provide feedback.

Best regards,
Dmitry Oboukhov