[Bug 1875062] Re: [20.04] Keyboard layout not enabled immediately during installation when typing username/password

[Jessica Van den Hende]

I've found how to overcome this bug.

I needed Belgian Azerty and made the selection Belgian - Belgian, and testing it always showed Azerty. Yet when I needed to fill in my username and password it always changed back to Qwerty..
I tried about 8 different combinations to try and get Azerty.. Yet always the same thing occured.

So now the solution; 
When you want for example Belgian Azerty, then you have to select Belgian in the first option, then select Belgian in the second option AND then go back to the first option and double click your selection. It then goes to the next screen. You select back, and go to the previous screen. Now you see it has the selection Belgian - Belgian. If you then go to the user and password screen it gives Azerty like it should do.

If you select the first one, and then double click it (without selecting
the second one, EVEN if it is already selected automaticly) then you'll
see that when you return to the previous screen it jumped back to the
automaticly selected first option (for me this was English) and that's
why I always got Qwerty instead of Azerty.

Hope this helps. :)

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Title:
  [20.04] Keyboard layout not enabled immediately during installation
  when typing username/password

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubiquity source package in Focal:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  During a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04, selecting Norwegian keyboard
  is provided and keys are responding correctly at that stage. But later
  when entering user information the keyboard setting is wrong.

  It looks like it have fallen back to English keyboard-layout.
  I failed to log in after my first install, so a new attempt I tried to write some special letters in the name field, and noticed that I got the wrong characters for the key.

  The install is done i VMware workstation 15.

  In the attached screendump, the characters (';[":{) after my name
  should have been (æøåÆØÅ) that is norwegian characters.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sat Apr 25 19:27:41 2020
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-25 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  Symptom: installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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