14.04 - keyboard loosing configuration

[Colin Law]

On 6 December 2014 at 12:27, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 December 2014 at 23:17, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No, but it is interesting that you are seeing that.  I also have a
>> 14.04 system configured with a UK keyboard and sometimes the £ # and @
>> characters go walkabout on the keyboard, I think it is going to the US
>> layout, though it still says it is UK.
>
>
> Yes, me too. On both my 14.04 systems.
>
> At work I have a Czech system & Czech keyboard layout, but I have a UK
> keyboard plugged in & need to use Windows' controls to switch. This
> means I'm used to switching layouts, which I do several times a day.
>
> So on Ubuntu I just added the layout switcher, a US layout, and the
> panel control... and when my keyboard occasionally goes wonky, I
> switch manually to US layout, then switch back again. This resolves it
> but it's annoying.

Right, the competition is on to see who can get it fail first and
submit the bug.  Since it seems to be not at all rare it is likely
that it has already been reported, but I could not find it when I
tried.

Colin

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