Keyboard changes to English instead of French in GDM graphical login prompt interface on RHEL 5.3

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Issue

  • Keyboard changes to English instead of French in GDM graphical login prompt interface.
    The system is RHEL 5.3 configured for French language and keyboard. Once the system logs in
    in graphical (init 5) or text (init 3) mode, the keyboard goes back to normal (French).

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3

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