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

[Phill. Whiteside]

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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