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  1. Login screen keyboard layout stays QWERTY on Debian/Ubuntu

    The desktop session uses the right keyboard layout, but the display manager greeter is still QWERTY. On Debian and Ubuntu the system-wide layout lives in /etc/default/keyboard and is applied by console-setup — localectl set-x11-keymap is deliberately disabled on these distributions.

  2. Login screen keyboard layout stays QWERTY on systemd distributions (Fedora, RHEL, Arch, openSUSE)

    The greeter of GDM, SDDM or LightDM ignores the layout configured in the desktop session. On localectl-driven distributions the fix is a single command that writes /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf — which Wayland greeters read too, via xkbcommon.