Ubuntu
gdm package

No Greek kb layout added after selecting it during installation

Bug #498856 reported by Thanos Lefteris
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Bug Description

Steps to reproduce:

1) During installation from the Ubuntu 9.10 or Lucid alpha 1 desktop live cd, select Greek as a language for installation
2) Select the Greek keyboard layout in appropriate installation step
2) Finish installation and reboot into the newly installed system

What I expected to happen:

 - Have the Greek keyboard layout added together with the default English one.

What actually happened:

 - Only the English keyboard layout is present. The user has to manually add the Greek layout. This is a regression over previous Ubuntu releases where the Greek layout was added automatically.

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote :

I'm putting gdm in the "Affects" list, as I think that it's a regression caused by the new gdm that was introduced with Karmic.
Also, when I choose "Greek" in the gdm screen, I properly get a Greek layout, but that's not the desired behavior, it should by default respect the system settings.

Some more info:
$ grep XKBLAYOUT /etc/default/console-setup
XKBLAYOUT="us,gr"

$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/layouts
[us]

Also, I've seen that key messed up with something like
[us,gr,us\,gr \,]
but I'm not sure if that problem was because of gdm or because of gnome-keyboard-properties.

affects: ubuntu → gdm (Ubuntu)
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Konstantinos Togias (ktogias) wrote :

I have also noticed this bug. It is a regression. It used to work as should in previous ubuntu versions. It would be good to have it fixed for 10.04.

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) wrote :

We need to figure out the source location of the configuration file(s) that configure the default keyboard layout for Greek.
For example, I would like to see a URL to a bazr repository that shows what keyboard layout settings are set by default when someone installs in Greek.

In addition to this, GNOME has changed the indicator applet by putting the support in gnome-settings-daemon.
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/498839/comments/8
This means more checking for regressions in Alpha2 (assuming this version takes in the new GNOME with the latest changes).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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