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

[Phill. Whiteside]

With the alternate lubuntu iso I just needed to do the sudo
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
 and it updated the /etc/default/keyboard file.

Phill.



On 23 March 2016 at 20:13, Phill. Whiteside <phillwuk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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