Comment 9 for bug 881222

I'm surprised my bug report wasn' t confirmed, despite there now being a few similar bugs, one for a French layout and some others that are thought to be duplicates. I think this reported preceded those, but who's keeping track.

Anyway (for those that might come across this), I found a fix, my fix and it takes care of bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/986322 too.

1. Open the gnome preference "keyboard layout" pane
2. Move the layout order, if you have more than one
3. Delete all layouts except the default one (mine was a US layout)

The previous two steps have been suggested as fixes on their own (on the Ubuntu forums?). They did not work for me. I tried them together consecutively and this again did not work for me. Thus my next step.

4. Press, "Reset to Defaults"
5. Layout changes effectuated from both the layout pane and indicator now result in a change in layout.