[19.04] Input method (keyboard) not respected

[Marco Aurélio Gonçalves Pinto]

I installed 19.04 in a VM using VirtualBox 6.0.6 from the .iso image (Live DVD).

I selected "English" as the language and the input method I selected was "Portuguese (Portugal)" which is my keyboard layout.

I created a password with special characters.

However, when we get to the login screen, the keyboard is automatically the one from the language installation, so the special characters always give a wrong password warning.

After I found a way of matching the special characters with the English keyboard, I get into the desktop and insert a Portuguese input method in the settings and change it in the top right of the window to "pt".

However, in every boot, in the login screen we still have "en" although "pt" appears below it if we click, but I have to change on every boot to "pt" since Ubuntu doesn't remember it.

Basically, this bug report is about the keyboard layout that uses the installation language and not the keyboard we select during installation.

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[Marco Aurélio Gonçalves Pinto (marcoagpinto)]

IRC discussion on #UBUNTU-DEV today

[15:28] <tomreyn> marcoagpinto: i'm not actually sure which component to file against. maybe ubiquity - the graphical installer, which should ensure that your chosen defaults pertain on the installed system.
[15:28] <tomreyn> marcoagpinto: i'm also not yet 100% sure i consider this a bug, thus want to try and reproduce it. can you tell me whether you bios or uefi booted, and tell the exact version you installed?
[15:29] <marcoagpinto> I tried moving the input source up and now it appears "pt" in the login screen
[15:30] <marcoagpinto> but, the input method should always be taken from what we select in the install DVD
[15:30] <marcoagpinto> I selected "Portuguese (Portugal)" during install, but I had to add it manually in the desktop
[15:30] <marcoagpinto> it only had US there
[15:31] <tomreyn> and you didn't have two keyboard schemes listed on the installer in the end, just pt?
[15:31] <marcoagpinto> so, it didn't respect my install choice
[15:31] <marcoagpinto> I installed in English and selected pt keyboard during install
[15:31] <marcoagpinto> but there was no "pt" when I booted from the HDD
[15:32] <marcoagpinto> so, it only installed the EN keyboard
[15:32] <marcoagpinto> thus my password didn't work because the keyboard EN != PT

[Tom Reynolds (tomreyn)]

Quick summary (from my POV, after discussing this with Marco in #ubuntu-bugs):

The issue described here is that the keyboard layout chosen during the Ubuntu 19.04 amd64 (default flavour) installer step does not carry to the installed system, where only the US-English keyboard will be available no matter what was set during the installer.

This is not an issue with ordering of available / configured / installed keyboard layouts. The layout chosen during the installation is simply discarded, is not configured on the installed system, the installed system always has the US-English keyboard layout installed exclusively.

This may turn out to be a result of the issue described in bug 1826567 (although some of the initial description here suggests differently).

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

I just installed Ubuntu 19.04 with UEFI boot, selecting Finnish as both the language and the keyboard layout. The layout happens to be correct for me after installation, ä and ö are working and only Finnish is listed in Input Methods / layouts.

(My only problem is that the installer does no longer offer Finnish keyboard by default if choosing Finnish language, a regression that I'm trying to find a bug for)

[Marco Aurélio Gonçalves Pinto (marcoagpinto)]

@Timo:

I selected the English language and Portuguese keyboard.