[lubuntu-devel] bug #1549529, failure to install a non-US-English keyboard
Nio Wiklund
nio.wiklund at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 11:07:31 UTC 2016
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
>
>
>
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