Keyboard settings in /etc/default/console-setup are being ignored

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Binary package hint: console-setup

I Jaunty I used to set my keyboard variant settings in /etc/default/console-setup as a workaround to it not being available in UIs since Hardy (as per Bug #359719 ). Now since the upgrade to Karmic, I not only have to use setxkbmap everytime I login, but also if I switch to the console and back to X.

Also, the console is not using the layout set in /etc/default/console-setup, so it appears this file is being ignored in my laptop.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 9 12:03:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: console-setup 1.34ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: console-setup
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[dirk (dirk-kuijsten)]

I have the exact same problem in Karmic. This is especially irritating because I use a laptop.