Keyboard Layout selector doesn't work under 8.04

[Paul]

Hello there,

I'm runnign Xubuntu 8.04 on a IBM X40. Happy with it, but there is this annoying bug;

I have an external keyboard attached (German-standard) which I sometimes use. Thus I have added the 'de' model in the Xubuntu keyboard layout settings screen.

Now every time I start up the laptop, the keyboard layout does not function anymore.

Instead of getting 'This is a sunny day' I get ˘Þħïß ïß á ßüññ« ð᫢ when I select the German layout and use the external German keyboard.

Now please note the following:
- It worked fine under Xubuntu 7.10. Never had a problem.
- Deleting and then re-adding the 'de' layout in the keyboard layout settings screen solves the problem, as long as I do not restart the laptop.
- My normal layout 'nl' works fine.

Hope that somebody can fix this! I'm a real noob so I wouldn't have a clue on how to solve it...

[Timpotten (tim-potten)]

I have standard 8.04 Gnome + K- and a Spanish USB keyboard which worked fine until a couple of days, when the system could not find it, even though the keyboard was present at USB port.

Fortunately I found an old PS2 keyboard, which worked, but only as US layout. Finally, at preferences>keyboard deleting US and having only Spanish displayed and selected it found the right layout.

Yesterday it did the same, except now the preferences>keyboard showed both the (deleted) US plus the Spanish option, but neither radio button was lit or activated.

Again only deleting both and selecting Spanish restored the layout and the USB keyboard.

This would be a serious problem for someone without an old PS2 keyboard hoarded (for why?) in the basement !

[Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Paul (treepata)]

Hey Pablo,

sorry but the issue is still not solved. But I am buying a new external NL keyboard soon (partly due to this small problem of each time "resetting" the settings again) so in a way that would solve the problem. But just not the bug.

But please understand that the keyboard worked fine under Xubuntu 7.10. So I do not know what has been changed in between, but I would say that comparing the old and new system files for the keyboard settings could help a bit.

[Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano)]

Hello Paul.
Sorry but you have not told us if you have tried with last Intrepid Beta release. Did you?

[Paul (treepata)]

Hey there,

sorry for this late response!

I have bought a new NL keyboard and gave away the old German keyboard to someone else. So I cannot check anymore whether this bug still affects me. So maybe it can be closed unless someone else experiences the same issue at a later point.

But thanks for helping me anyway!

[Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano)]

Since you can't give any more information I'll proceed to close this bug.
Thanks for your report and don't hesitate to reopen this bug if you consider it appropiate!