Choose between multiple keyboard layouts for different users in GDM3

Posted by Daniel Wagner on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Daniel Wagner
Published on 2012-06-10T14:52:30Z Indexed on 2012/06/10 16:42 UTC
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I am trying to set up a computer with multiple users each with different preferred keyboard layouts. The biggest sticking point right now is allowing each to log in comfortably.

GDM used to offer a way to choose keyboard layout, but I can't discover how to set this up in GDM3. All the solutions I found when Googling this problem suggest changing the keyboard layout in xorg.conf, but that only sets a different single layout and still does not seem to allow me to change the layout between multiple choices.

How can I allow multiple layouts when logging in?

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