On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:41:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 14:48:59 +0000, Dale Powell wrote: >>My root password works fine when issuing commands (such as apt update) >>in the terminal but it does not accept it as being the correct >>password when trying the GUI settings features such as those found in >>AV Linux Assistant (also tried the default one from the manual and >>that doesn't work either.) Tried at least 20 times! > >If you write a text using a GUI app and you use the keys used for your >password, are the correct letters displayed? If not perhaps running > > sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration > shutdown --reboot now > >does solve the issue, or as a temporarily workaround remember the wrong >letters and type those as your password. > >A Linux install could have a system wide setting for the keyboard >layout and at least another for a desktop environment's user session. > >I neither use a desktop environment, nor AVL, but it's a known issue, >that the user-friendliness of desktop environments used on Debian based >distros has got a tendency to go berserk. > >Consider to read the complete thread: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/2018-July/011256.html >https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/2018-July/thread.html I suspect the dpkg-reconfigure hint won't work for you. There must be a setting for your user session, that does not require a password, to change the keyboard layout for the user session. Perhaps the log in screen does provide a language setting. Or how about http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2013/11/how-to-configure-keyboard-layouts-in-xfce-cinnamon-mate.html ? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
