System wide default keyboard layout (Norwegian) not applied to guest session

[Øyvind Stegard]

I have Norwegian set as default keyboard layout and obviously physically corresponding keyboard hardware. For guest sessions, the active keyboard layout becomes wrong and typing is broken. In guest's prefs, the correct system wide default setting of "Norwegian" is in fact set. But it looks like it has not been applied properly, and US is really the active layout. Running "setxkbmap no" resolves the issue for that session.

Problem exists on two different machines. Both have wireless Logitech keyboards with Norwegian layout (one is bluetooth DiNovo Edge and the other is K750 with unified receiver).

I added the following startup entry as a work-around:
$ cat /etc/xdg/autostart/set-keyboard-norwegian.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Set Norwegian keyboard layout
Comment=Set Norwegian keyboard layout using setxkbmap
Exec=setxkbmap no
Terminal=false
Icon=keyboard
Categories=System;Settings;

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: keyboard-configuration 1.70ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-34.53-generic 3.2.33
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-34-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 17 13:27:43 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: console-setup
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Øyvind Stegard (oyvindstegard)]

Might be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/985065