[lubuntu-devel] bug #1549529, failure to install a non-US-English keyboard

[Nio Wiklund]

Hi Phill,

You have taught me something now. It works!

I happened to have a xenial mini system (text only), where I had 
attempted to get Swedish. It was only partly successful. For example the 
header line is in Swedish, but the keyboard is, well, was :-) in US English.

I could make it Swedish with the command

sudo loadkeys se

but it did not survive reboots.

Your method with

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

(and using the text-based menus) changed the current keyboard, and it 
survives reboots :-)

I checked and the values are stored in the file

/etc/default/keyboard

-o-

Finally, remember that it also works to use Lubuntu's menu option to 
install a language.

1. In the live session before starting the installer (ubiquity)

2. In the installed system after reboot

But not while the installer (ubiquity) is running.

Best regards
Nio

Den 2016-03-23 kl. 21:13, skrev Phill. Whiteside:
> Hi,
>
> using the server iso I followed an answer on askubuntu
>
> up vote3down voteaccepted
> 	
>
> using |sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration| will change your
> keyboardlayout just for this session.
>
> go for |sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard| there you can change your
> keyboard settings.
>
> Find the line :
>
> |XKBLAYOUT="xx" |
>
> You can change |layout| and |kboptions| as well as your |model| and the
> |kbvariant|.
>
>
> This works and persists after a reboot
>
> Nio, can you give it a try with Swedish.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 23 March 2016 at 09:01, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com
> <mailto:nio.wiklund at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Phill,
>
>     I found a workaround for bug #1549529:
>
>     If you install Swedish language in the live session *before*
>     starting the installer, it works to get Swedish keyboard in the
>     installed system.
>
>     Maybe you should include it in the release notes. (I think it
>     applies to several minor languages, not only Swedish.)
>
>     Best regards
>     Nio
>
>
>     Den 2016-02-25 kl. 00:53, skrev Nio Wiklund:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I have reported a new bug about failure to install a non-US-English
>         keyboard. See this link
>
>         https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1549529
>
>         -----
>         The keyboard is still installed as US-English even if Swedish is
>         selected during the installation
>
>         This bug is reported from a system installed from Lubuntu Xenial
>         alternate i386, but the corresponding desktop version is also
>         affected.
>         It is a rather new bug, that seems to have appeared at about the
>         same
>         time as the big problems with starting Ubiquity.
>
>         Selecting another language in the installer looks the same in the
>         alternate installer. But it looks different in the desktop
>         installer.
>         The locale is not pre-selected, you click on the world map, and
>         you are
>         asked if the selected keyboard is correct. The following window with
>         alternative keyboards is empty. But that would be OK, if the
>         installer
>         would do, what it promises.
>
>         After installation a lot of text is in the selected language,
>         Swedish in
>         my case, for example the pulldown menus in lxterminal. But when
>         I type,
>         the US English keyboard is still there. I have to run
>
>         setxkbmap se
>         -----
>
>         Please install Lubuntu Xenial beta1 and try another language. Click
>         'affects me too' if you have a similar problem with some other
>         non-English language.
>
>         Best regards
>         Nio
>
>
>