Western keyboard layouts don't work after thai language login
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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language-support-th (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xkeyboard-config
Binary package hint: gtk-im-libthai
(I'm setting up an Ubuntu system for a thai friend of mine. The laptop is in my possession until Monday 29th of May to provide further info and debug. After that I can only get to it occasionally.)
This is with the x86 Dapper, installed from beta2, last update today.
When selecting the thai language in gdm login, western layouts (tried various, most important for me is finnish) can't type all characters. Specifically, the AltGr doesn't seem to work in any of them nor do the Scandinavian special characters (a with dots, o with dots). The characters that can be typed do come according to the selected layout and when logging in with finnish or english language everything works as expected.
The characters that can be typed vary by application. It seems that the AltGr key is unfunctional in Gtk apps, but works in Firefox, OOo and gnome-terminal. The Scandinavian characters don't work anywhere.
I have tried different layouts, changing everything that seems relevant in the keyboard settings and changing the font settings. Nothing has helped.
I'm attaching the output of the following commands in case it might give some clues, but do note that I have changed almost every setting that's visible in these:
$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_
_XKB_RULES_
$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/
layouts = [fi,th]
model = pc105
options = [grp grp:ctrl_
overrideSettings = true
Let me know if you need further info!
description: | updated |
Changed in language-support-th (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: keyboard-layout |
More information on this:
I tried to reproduce this with my desktop, in order to be able to debug even after I give the laptop away, but there the finnish layout works without problems even when logging in with thai language.
Both machines have the latest Dapper packages, but the desktop has been installed as Breezy and upgraded to Dapper about a week ago.
I assume the above is the reason for the difference, but just in case it's hardware specific, the laptop model is HP dv5129eu.