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  1. Bug #837456
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 837456

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Arturo Espinosa (arturoea-u) wrote :

Hi. I can confirm this situation on Lubuntu 17.10 with onboard-1.4.1-2ubuntu1 installed and Spanish keyboard configured (localectl set-keymap es). No need for clients generating synthetic keyboard events: just using onboard, any key, will switch it back to 'us' layout. Same: any physical keyboard usage will switch the system back to the correct layout.

This is a quite barebones installation for a kiosk; I'm not using fcitx nor any other fancy IM subsystem. Before removing fcitx, I didn't notice this bug. It seems like fcitx kept onboard at bay.

Issuing setxkbmap es at the start of the session (in my case in ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart) fixed the problem AFAICT.

Otherwise, I'm VERY happy with onboard and its flexibility. So far I have been able to overcome all of its quirks and take advantage of its power, without any need to patch the code. We have custom layout, theme and colors. Again, very happy with it.