Changing keyboard layout in KDM

[freethread]

I run in trouble changing keyboard layout in KDM. The system is FreeBSD 8.2, installed KDE4 and KDM, all works fine, but a user with punctuation characters in his password cannot log-in into KDE. The keyboard has italian layout, I originally configured xorg (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) with italian keyboard layout before installing KDE and it works

Option   "XkbLayout" "it"

I searched on Internet for a solution there is no pages about that specific for FreeBSD, the only soluions I found are for linux and all specify to set the proper layout option in xorg.conf (the code above).

To start KDE I inserted the lines

local_startup="${local_startup} /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d"
kdm4_enable="YES"

in rc.conf

Note that if the user insert his password as for an US keyboard layout, access is grant, so the keyboard layout in KDM seems to have US layout.

 

[chip64c]

Maybe try customizing the keyboard or nationality or other settings IN KDE. They do have a keyboard configuration there. Once done, back up your configuration either way.

 

[freethread]

Maybe try customizing the keyboard or nationality or other settings IN KDE. They do have a keyboard configuration there. Once done, back up your configuration either way.

KDE is already configured with italian keyboard layout. All worked fine till access with a non-whole-alphanum password. This also happens if the user name is not whole alphanum and I can see the keybord layout is US, the same thing happens when start FreeBSD in single user mode, there I can handle it.

I will try to do something in files in /usr/local/kde4/share/config/kdm after updating KDE if things stay the same. There should be an xkbd-something command to dinamically set kbd layout in X. I will try to execute it in Xsetup or Xstartup, thanks for the answer.