14.04 - keyboard loosing configuration

[Colin Law]

On 6 December 2014 at 12:36, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I think it might be
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/ibus/+bug/1240198
though when it talks about occasionally switching to English you have
to read American.
If so then a fix has been released (ibus) so will hopefully appear fairly soon.

Colin

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> Colin
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