default to keyboard layout from running system

[Fabrizio Balliano]

in the screen where you choose the keyboard layout, espresso does not select the current layout (detected from the running system)

it should be done :)
cheers
fabrizio

Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'espresso'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

What keyboard layout did you select at the CD boot menu? Did you change the keyboard layout in some other way after the live CD started up?

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Confirmed in Dapper Beta 2. I chose Swiss German in the boot menu and it correctly set up xorg.conf with "ch" and "de". However in ubiquity, the default was American.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Setting back to Needs Info because I'd also like to know what the original reporter's keyboard setup was.

[Fabrizio Balliano (fabrizio-balliano)]

i chose "italian" in gfxboot, then ubuquity automatically select "american"

cheers

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

casper preseeds debian-installer/keymap (which is needed by xorg), but kbd-chooser wants to be preseeded with kbd-chooser/method instead. I'll send Tollef a fix in a bit.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Hmm. Even after this casper fix, ubiquity defaults to the keymap matching the selected language, not the one selected in gfxboot. This may be due to a bug elsewhere, but I'd better keep it open on ubiquity just in case.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fix for the casper side of this bug in http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/bzr/casper/ubiquity/

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low

  [ Luke Yelavich ]
  * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
    - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
    - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
    #41896).
  * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
  * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
    needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
    by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
  * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
    kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
    Malone #42202).
  * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
    avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.

  [ Tollef Fog Heen ]
  * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
  * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
    scripts. Malone #43860
  * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
  * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
    Malone #43687
  * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
  * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <email address hidden> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubiquity's kbd-chooser component integration clobbers preseeding. I'll fix this after the Dapper release; it's unfortunately too late now.

[Thanos Kyritsis (djart)]

I'm experiencing the following difference between 6.06 and 6.10 edgy beta when installing with ubiquity:

Selecting Greek Language in Ubiquity Edgy Beta installer at the 1st installation step, should also pre-select by default the Greek keyboard layout option at the 2nd installation step. This was the behaviour at 6.06 and it provides better support as it adds the "XkbLayout" "us,gr" in xorg.conf (lots of users simply do click next next next, so these 2 options are better to be tied together. Now in Edgy Beta they simply select Greek language and forget to select Greek as the keyboard layout as well, resulting in an installed system that lacks keyboard switching support).

I'm not selecting any keymap from the gfxboot, I just start casper in order to run ubiquity for installing the distro.

[Evan (ev)]

This appears to have been fixed a while ago. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you experience the issue in new Ubuntu desktop CD images.