I installed Ubuntu Mate 19.10 on my cousin laptop, during install process I selected only french keyboard and used a simple user password composed of numbers, but after login I added arabic keyboard layout because it's her native language, and then my cousin changed her password to something in arab…

No, don't do that. You are logged in to the installed, mounted partition... Actually, I just read that the dpkg-reconfigure is only temporary, so it wouldn't work. Mount everything again and chmod in it, then follow this guide , specifically, the "Permanently Configure keyboard in Ubuntu" section. …

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Impossible to change keyboard layout on lightdm at login

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ambark 7 November 2019 04:56 8

Maybe post here: What's your most important bugfix or new feature for 20.04?

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