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hi, I changed my keyboard language. Then restarted without changing it back to English. My user name and password is in English. I'm using a custom GDM theme. Now when ...
  1. 03-08-2010 #1
    esafwan
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    Key Board Language changed, Can't login!

    hi,
    I changed my keyboard language. Then restarted without changing it back to English. My user name and password is in English. I'm using a custom GDM theme. Now when i switch on my system my login screen keyboard language is not English. what can i do? Is there any way to change it back?
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    Your username and password aren't in any language. They are just strings of characters as far as the computer is concerned. The prompts may now be in a foreign language but your responses will still be processed in exactly the same way as before. Enter your username and password as usual and then, when you are logged in, you can change the language back again.
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    boot into the recovery console and issue the following command:
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    locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8
    reboot normally, you're system should be using the GB keyboard again.
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