Comment 24 for bug 359719

The workaround in comment #18 does *not* work anymore since Karmic. Even the console config does not honor the settings in /etc/default/console-data anymore.

I've found a new permanent workaround, but this time it has to be configured per account, instead of system-wise.

1- Open the gconf-editor application;
2- Search for key 'kbd', and look for /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd;
3- In the key "layouts", there should be the value "br", change it to "br thinkpad".

The whitespace in step 3 is a tab, not several spaces.