[il] Re: pre-installed keyboard layouts for specific language

[Coburn Ingram]

I didn't try the legacy ISO, but I was able to get the Hebrew keyboard
working by enabling a Hebrew locale. I shouldn't have to do that, but at
least there is a workaround.

Ironically, my English locale enables all kinds of Indian fonts, which tend
to clutter up my LibreOffice font menu, and which I will never be smart
enough to use. But the one keyboard I want to use...

On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 6:02 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> On 2023-02-27 00:17, Coburn Ingram wrote:
> > I did verify this problem.
> >
> > With a fresh install to a thumbdrive of Ubuntu 23.04, using *mkusb,
> > *i.e. a persistent live ISO, the only Hebrew keyboard available was
> > the primitive consonants-only keyboard. Sorry, I forget the name. I'm
> > not on that install any more, and I believe it is not one of the
> > options in the definitions file. The *il* definitions file with all
> > the other options was still present in */usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols*.
> >
> > With a fresh install to a thumbdrive of Ubuntu 23.04 using a
> > standard install, i.e. hardware-agnostic normal install, there were
> > *no* Hebrew keyboards available, even when I ran *gsettings set
> > org.gnome.desktop.input-sources show-all-sources true*. The *il*
> > definitions file is still present and complete.
>
> Ok..
>
> I just made an install of 23.04 in VirtualBox, chose the basic Hebrew
> layout in the installer, and it resulted in:
>
> $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources
> [('xkb', 'us'), ('xkb', 'il')]
>
> available at first login.
>
> (I used the "legacy" ISO.)
>
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