Keyboard layout won't delete

[Davidgagne80]

Linux Mint Debian Edition
I installed a different keyboard layout, and removed the old one (had not selected the right one during install). When I went in the control center, under Keyboard / layouts tab, click on the one I want to delete, then remove, everything's fine. But as soon as I reboot the layout is back. Does that every time I restart the computer, if I just put it to sleep and restore it's fine...

 I just want to be able to delete it so it stays deleted!

Thanks for your help!

[Davidgagne80 (davidgagne80)]

**more infos**
I use canada multilingual, and the one that won't delete is regular canada.
Tried installing US and deleting it, it worked just fine... stays deleted!

[Newfie (mn-newfie)]

Affects me as well. I am using Canadian English, Russian and Finnish layouts.

[Justin Krehel (jkrehel)]

Currently checking this out - I can reproduce this issue using Canadian English, US, Russian, and Finnish. If I delete US layout, it comes back on reboot. If I delete any other layout, it stays gone.

Checked the gconf files, layouts, and locales. No immediate understanding why this is happening, but will keep looking.

[Davidgagne80 (davidgagne80)]

Thanks Justin K. Don't know if that helps, but personally, the one I can't remove is the one I selected during the installation...

[Justin Krehel (jkrehel)]

The same with me David, Newfie had alerted me to his situation in the IRC channel and remembered it matched up with this bug. I'm trying different combinations to see how (or if) this can be fixed.

[Newfie (mn-newfie)]

I found a way to fix this.

On my installation, I had selected "USA" as the keyboard layout because I didn't see a reason to look through the long list of layouts for something unimportant at that point.

Upon boot this morning, I noticed the keyboard layout was set to "USA" in the GDM (login screen). I changed it to Canadian English and when I logged in, the "USA" was nowhere to be seen :)

[eric.void (eric-void)]

I had this problem with USA Dvorak.

But the workaround at comment #6 worked like a charm!

Thank you! That one was bugging me!

[eric.void (eric-void)]

BTW I was trying to set USA Dvorak as Default but USA intl wasn't going away.

[Christian Medina (cmedinasoriano)]

Thank you thank you for workaround at comment #6. This bug was getting to my nerves.

[Ramon Casha (rcasha)]

This affects me too. Moreover, the default layout at startup is always the one I'm trying to delete.

[grivel (cleancomputer-ch)]

Hello,

I'v same problem in my Linux Mint 11, I try look around the Web.

Maybe I find the little way of this problem, one of my readings let me chek one file /my home/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/%gconf.xml !! This file is modified at boot time.

I try many same tests,

-> who modifie this file in system.

Now, I try one new test. I modified directly this file and reboot, I want show if this file is already modified by System.

I send the result in next post.

[grivel (cleancomputer-ch)]

I try the test I explain as above, thi is no effect....

But, my new idea is modifie on the file in /etc/default/keyboard.

I try this technique and the result in good thing.

The file in /my home/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/%gconf.xml is composed one part by the configuration from /etc/default/keyboard and other part from your add with the control panel for keyboard layout. The sytem get information from /etc/default/keyboard. If you modifie only the /etc/default/keyboard and not -> %gconf.xml you will need modifi one time with the control panel and reboot, after is right thing.

Alexandre