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Keyboard layout setting did not take effect in installed system

Bug #408292 reported by Matt Zimmerman on 2009-08-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #421212: gdm ignores keyboard layout selection for variants. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Evan
Karmic	Confirmed	Medium	Evan
xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Karmic	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

This may be a duplicate of bug 401047, but I'm not certain.

I installed UNR 20090802 i386, selecting a USA/Dvorak keyboard layout. After the installation completed and I rebooted and logged in (no autologin), my session ended up with a USA/QWERTY keyboard layout.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote on 2009-08-03:

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Tanel Külaots (mou) wrote on 2009-09-04:

I can confirm that this affects Karmic Alpha 5. During install I chose Estonian/Dvorak as keyboard layout. After reboot keyboard layout was just Estonian.

Robbie Williamson (robbiew) on 2009-09-04

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Medium
assignee:	nobody → Evan Dandrea (evand)

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Evan (ev) wrote on 2009-09-07:

This looks like it may be an X bug.

/etc/default/console-setup ends up with the correct options:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT="dvorak"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch"

Which X gets:
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
(**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "pc105"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
(**) Option "xkb_variant" "dvorak"
(**) Option "xkb_options" "lv3:ralt_switch"

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote on 2009-09-07:

Running "setxkbmap dvorak" works around it for me. It doesn't seem like an X issue; my best guess at the moment is that GNOME is setting the keymap when it starts up, rather than keeping the X default (though I haven't checked this).