keyboard layouts and password prompts

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From: Stig Brautaset
Subject: keyboard layouts and password prompts
Date: 12:41 on 21 Jan 2006
Dear Diary,

About a week ago I switched macs and used the migration assistant to  
move my account over. Since then there has been much gnashing of  
teeth and wailing in anger. In its wisdom my mac has decided that  
qwerty is the One True Keyboard Layout(tm) and decided to educate me  
about its view by overriding my choice of keyboard layout. When  
bringing up password dialogues it[*] changes the desired keyboard to  
qwerty, despite my preference for Dvorak. Sometimes it does this  
without changing the keyboard icon in the menubar at the top, and it  
even does this if I have no other keyboard layouts than Dvorak  
selected. It won't even let me change the layout back to Dvorak so I  
can type my password when the dialogue is open.

Hatefully yours,
	Stig

[*] often, but not always

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