diff --git a/default/sddm/hyprland.lua b/default/sddm/hyprland.lua
index 977ae17e..42c19bcc 100644
--- a/default/sddm/hyprland.lua
+++ b/default/sddm/hyprland.lua
@@ -1,6 +1,55 @@
 -- Minimal Hyprland config for the SDDM Wayland greeter.
 -- SDDM starts the greeter itself after the compositor is ready.
+
+-- The layout resolution below is deliberately duplicated from
+-- default/hypr/input.lua. The greeter runs as the sddm user and starts from
+-- this file directly, so it never goes through default/hypr/bootstrap.lua --
+-- which builds package.path from $HOME and therefore can't set up require()
+-- here. Keep the two in sync.
+local function read_vconsole()
+  local values = {}
+  local file = io.open("/etc/vconsole.conf", "r")
+  if not file then
+    return values
+  end
+  for line in file:lines() do
+    local key, value = line:match("^%s*([%w_]+)%s*=%s*(.-)%s*$")
+    if key and value then
+      value = value:gsub("%s+#.*$", "")
+      value = value:gsub('^"(.*)"$', "%1")
+      value = value:gsub("^'(.*)'$", "%1")
+      values[key] = value
+    end
+  end
+  file:close()
+  return values
+end
+
+-- Layouts that can't type Latin letters. Keep in sync with the list in
+-- etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/omarchy_hooks.conf and default/hypr/input.lua.
+local non_latin_layouts =
+  " af am ara bd bg by et ge gr il in iq ir kg kh kz la lk mk mm mn mv np rs ru sy th tj ua "
+
+local vconsole = read_vconsole()
+local kb_layout = vconsole.XKBLAYOUT or "us"
+local kb_variant = vconsole.XKBVARIANT or ""
+local kb_options = ""
+
+-- A greeter that can't type Latin letters can't take a password either, so a
+-- non-Latin layout gets us in front, reachable back with Left Alt + Right Alt.
+if non_latin_layouts:find(" " .. kb_layout:match("^[^,]*") .. " ", 1, true) then
+  kb_layout = "us," .. kb_layout
+  kb_variant = "," .. kb_variant
+  kb_options = "grp:alts_toggle"
+end
+
 hl.config({
+  input = {
+    kb_layout = kb_layout,
+    kb_variant = kb_variant,
+    kb_options = kb_options,
+  },
+
   misc = {
     disable_hyprland_logo = true,
     disable_splash_rendering = true,
diff --git a/test/shell.d/hyprland-keyboard-layout-test.sh b/test/shell.d/hyprland-keyboard-layout-test.sh
index 8ed6fe38..cd2bc5e2 100644
--- a/test/shell.d/hyprland-keyboard-layout-test.sh
+++ b/test/shell.d/hyprland-keyboard-layout-test.sh
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ source "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/base-test.sh"
 
 require_command lua
 
-resolved_input() {
-  OMARCHY_PATH="$ROOT" OMARCHY_VCONSOLE="${1-}" lua <<'LUA'
+resolved_input_for() {
+  local module="$1"
+  OMARCHY_PATH="$ROOT" OMARCHY_MODULE="$module" OMARCHY_VCONSOLE="${2-}" lua <<'LUA'
 package.path = os.getenv("OMARCHY_PATH") .. "/?.lua;" .. package.path
 
 local vconsole = os.getenv("OMARCHY_VCONSOLE")
@@ -16,7 +17,9 @@ io.open = function(path, mode)
     return real_open(path, mode)
   end
 
-  if not vconsole then
+  -- An unset OMARCHY_VCONSOLE reaches Lua as "", never nil, so the cases that
+  -- ask for a missing /etc/vconsole.conf need the empty string to fail the open.
+  if not vconsole or vconsole == "" then
     return nil
   end
 
@@ -35,19 +38,29 @@ hl = {
 
 o = { window = function() end }
 
-require("default.hypr.input")
+require(os.getenv("OMARCHY_MODULE"))
 LUA
 }
 
-assert_input() {
-  local description="$1"
-  local expected="$2"
+resolved_input() {
+  resolved_input_for "default.hypr.input" "${1-}"
+}
+
+# The greeter compositor resolves the layout from its own entrypoint.
+resolved_greeter_input() {
+  resolved_input_for "default.sddm.hyprland" "${1-}"
+}
+
+assert_resolved_input() {
+  local resolver="$1"
+  local description="$2"
+  local expected="$3"
   local actual
 
-  if (( $# > 2 )); then
-    actual=$(resolved_input "$3")
+  if (( $# > 3 )); then
+    actual=$("$resolver" "$4")
   else
-    actual=$(resolved_input)
+    actual=$("$resolver")
   fi
 
   [[ $actual == "$expected" ]] ||
@@ -55,24 +68,48 @@ assert_input() {
   pass "$description"
 }
 
+assert_input() {
+  assert_resolved_input resolved_input "$@"
+}
+
+assert_greeter_input() {
+  assert_resolved_input resolved_greeter_input "$@"
+}
+
 base_options="compose:caps,shift:both_capslock_cancel"
 toggle_options="$base_options,grp:alts_toggle"
 
 assert_input "missing vconsole.conf falls back to us" "[us] [] [$base_options]"
+
 assert_input "us layout passes through" "[us] [intl] [$base_options]" 'XKBLAYOUT=us
 XKBVARIANT=intl
 '
+
 assert_input "latin layouts are left alone" "[de] [nodeadkeys] [$base_options]" 'XKBLAYOUT=de
 XKBVARIANT=nodeadkeys
 '
+
 assert_input "non-latin layout gains us in front" "[us,ara] [,] [$toggle_options]" 'XKBLAYOUT=ara
 '
+
 assert_input "prepended us keeps variants aligned" "[us,ru] [,phonetic] [$toggle_options]" 'XKBLAYOUT=ru
 XKBVARIANT=phonetic
 '
+
 assert_input "non-latin layout in front gains us even when us trails" "[us,il,us] [,] [$toggle_options]" 'XKBLAYOUT=il,us
 '
 
+# The greeter takes no compose or capslock options: they're session comfort
+# settings with nothing to do with typing a password.
+assert_greeter_input "greeter falls back to us without vconsole.conf" "[us] [] []"
+
+assert_greeter_input "greeter follows the system layout" "[fr] [] []" 'XKBLAYOUT=fr
+'
+
+assert_greeter_input "greeter keeps a latin layout in front" "[us,ru] [,phonetic] [grp:alts_toggle]" 'XKBLAYOUT=ru
+XKBVARIANT=phonetic
+'
+
 hooks_conf="$ROOT/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/omarchy_hooks.conf"
 input_lua="$ROOT/default/hypr/input.lua"
 
@@ -80,6 +117,14 @@ hooks_layouts=$(awk -F')' '/\) ;;$/ { gsub(/[[:space:]|]+/, "\n", $1); print $1
 lua_layouts=$(sed -n '/^local non_latin_layouts =/,+1p' "$input_lua" | grep -o '"[^"]*"' | tr -d '"' | tr ' ' '\n' | grep '^[a-z]\+$' | sort)
 
 [[ -n $hooks_layouts ]] || fail "non-latin layout list is readable from omarchy_hooks.conf"
+
 [[ $hooks_layouts == "$lua_layouts" ]] ||
   fail "non-latin layout lists stay in sync" "$(diff <(echo "$hooks_layouts") <(echo "$lua_layouts"))"
 pass "non-latin layout lists stay in sync with the initramfs hook"
+
+sddm_lua="$ROOT/default/sddm/hyprland.lua"
+sddm_layouts=$(sed -n '/^local non_latin_layouts =/,+1p' "$sddm_lua" | grep -o '"[^"]*"' | tr -d '"' | tr ' ' '\n' | grep '^[a-z]\+$' | sort)
+
+[[ $hooks_layouts == "$sddm_layouts" ]] ||
+  fail "greeter non-latin layout list stays in sync" "$(diff <(echo "$hooks_layouts") <(echo "$sddm_layouts"))"
+pass "greeter non-latin layout list stays in sync with the initramfs hook"