[Bug 1506551] [NEW] keyboard detection fails to properly apply keyboard variant

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Public bug reported:

Using keyboard detection to pick a dvorak variant of 'us'; the
appropriate layout appears to be selected (but it *is* the default),
except the variant (dvorak itself) isn't being properly applied.

Using the menus to pick us:dvorak from a list, the keyboard variant is
properly applied once setupcon gets run.

It appears as though setting XKB_VARIANT after keyboard detection code
runs is either skipped or mangled; but otherwise works fine when picked
manually.

** Affects: console-setup (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: rls-w-incoming

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Tags added: rls-w-incoming

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Title:
  keyboard detection fails to properly apply keyboard variant

Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Using keyboard detection to pick a dvorak variant of 'us'; the
  appropriate layout appears to be selected (but it *is* the default),
  except the variant (dvorak itself) isn't being properly applied.

  Using the menus to pick us:dvorak from a list, the keyboard variant is
  properly applied once setupcon gets run.

  It appears as though setting XKB_VARIANT after keyboard detection code
  runs is either skipped or mangled; but otherwise works fine when
  picked manually.

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