[lubuntu-devel] bug #1549529, failure to install a non-US-English keyboard
Phill. Whiteside
phillwuk at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 12:23:13 UTC 2016
So as to KISS, I've posted the same workaround to both bugs.. That way we
do not care which installer an OP used - the command is the same :D
Regards,
Phill.
On 24 March 2016 at 11:38, Phill. Whiteside <phillwuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> okies, two bugs.. same workaround,
>
> I'll update release notes and bugs accordingly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On 24 March 2016 at 11:07, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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