keyboard layout (USA) cannot be removed

[Colin Law]

On 28 December 2010 07:47, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
> Good evening from Japan
> I installed TuxTrans - basically Ubuntu 10.04 but packed with lots of
> stuff for translators - on a dedicated machine to experiment with it.
>
> Question:
> I am in Japan and use a Japanese computer (Hitachi Flora)/keyboard/language.
> Although I specified during the installation to use a "Japanese"
> keyboard, the default seems to be "USA".
> Right clicking on the little icon at the top margin of screen after
> adding German and Japanese keyboards:
> Right click -> Groups: shows "Germany, Japan, USA".
>
> I REMOVED the keyboard layout "USA" (don't need it) SEVERAL TIMES
> already, but each time I restart the computer its layout is back.

Have you tried removing it in System, Preferences, Keyboard, Layouts?

Colin

> Immediately after I removed "USA" there are only two KBs and I can
> switch between them, but they tend to switch on their own while I am
> using the keyboard for some other operations.
> I noticed, that although I deliberately switched the KB to "Japan", it
> switches back to "German", in particular, when I use the key combination
> "Ctrl + Q".
>
> Now, what is this all about. I have never seen any such behavior before
> and I definitely do not want it. This is very annoying.
>
> Is there a way to fix this?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
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