Bluetooth keyboard is configured with wrong keyboard layout

[Thibaut Brandscheid]

Phone: Meizu MX4 (15.04 r4)
OS Language: German

What you expected to happen:
When connecting a Bluetooth keyboard I expect that the keyboard layout is the same as the keyboard hardware key layout (German) or that it is possible to change the keyboard layout in the Bluetooth setting for the connected Bluetooth device.

What happened instead:
The Bluetooth keyboard worked, but wasn't set to German key layout. In the Bluetooth device setting I couldn't find any option to change the Bluetooth keyboard key layout.

[Simon Fels (morphis)]

From what I hear from the Mir/UI guys this is something which isn't implemented yet on their side. BlueZ itself doesn't have any control over this as its just exposing an input device which is then configured and used by the UI.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

This is blocked by bug #1530946 atm.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-system-settings - 0.3+16.04.20160323-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-system-settings (0.3+16.04.20160323-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ jonas-drange ]
  * Add External Keyboard panel which allows for configuration of the
    default keymap. (LP: #1524400, #1491340)

 -- Michael Zanetti <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Mar 2016 08:46:55 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.12+16.04.20160323.2-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.12+16.04.20160323.2-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Michael Terry ]
  *
  * Fix setting OSK layout in OOBE wizard
  * Stop the left edge tutorial from being shown when the bottom edge
    tutorial wants to be shown after receiving a call.

  [ Albert Astals Cid ]
  * Filter implementation with Option Selector filter as the only filter
  * Get the engine from the parent context
  * Implement the API changes due to filters
  * Match design visuals for the new dash navigation/page header popup
  * New Dash Navigation UX
  * Range Input filter
  * Value slider filter
  * Workaround SDK ListItem bug

  [ Albert Astals Cid, Lukáš Tinkl ]
  * Fix various tests

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * Resync trunk.
  * Update translation template

  [ Lukáš Tinkl, Michael Terry ]
  * New first-run wizard for the phone (part of the OOBE effort) (LP:
    #1536688, #1536617, #1543790, #1555222)

  [ Lukáš Tinkl, Michał Sawicz ]
  * Keymap switching support (LP: #1524400, #1412492, #1491340)

  [ Michael Terry, Michael Zanetti ]
  * Redesign the first-boot edge tutorial

  [ Michael Zanetti ]
  * disabling some tests that are flaky in adt but can't be made fail on
    our machines

  [ Michael Zanetti, Michał Sawicz ]
  * Change the behavior alond with the switch in indicator-display (LP:
    #1538591)

  [ Michael Zanetti, Michał Sawicz, Nick Dedekind ]
  * Add support for low shell chrome. (LP: #1535397)
  * Sidestage load/unload redesign (LP: #1544479)

 -- Michael Zanetti <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:53:17 +0000

[Tomas Öqvist (tomoqv)]

I tried this today on my Nexus 4 (rc-proposed-pd r179) and Swedish keyboard layout works with the Ubuntu Touch apps, but not Gedit and LibreOffice. With those apps the English layout remains. I haven't tried Firefox yet.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Tomas, that's quite likely - can you please file a new bug against unity8 for this? Thank you.