[Bug 881222] Re: Alternative keyboard layouts missing in Keyboard Preferences in Oneiric

[Chascon]

To be clear the procedure outlined in https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04
/ubuntu-help/keyboard-layouts.html does not work. A workaround, although
temporary was to issue

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

That allowed me to select the standard US keyboard layout, with the the
help of wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_keyboard to
identify the exact physical keyboard I have). The new layout showed up
in the Unity applet, to the exclusion of my previous selections, but did
not do so once within the keyboard preferences pane, where only my
previously selected ones showed up.

The newer US layout eventually disappeared sometime after changing the
options within the keyboard preferences pane (to one of my earlier
layout choices).

It seems that the keyboard preferences pane breaks after the upgrade,
and if it hasn't been reported it's probably because most people are
monolingual and/or use solely one layout, and haven't bothered re-
configuring layouts. Thus, they haven't found the pane to be broken
because they haven had the need to reconfigure.


I not sure if the following procedure would fare any better.

cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep "en\|ru" > /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
dpkg-reconfigure locales
update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Edgy/TipsAndTricks#How_to_set_the_Compose_key_to_type_special_characters

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Title:
  Alternative keyboard layouts missing in Keyboard Preferences in
  Oneiric

Status in “console-setup” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Symptom
  I can't add alternative keyboard layouts.

  
  Steps to reproduce
  Go to Keyboard Layout 
  Press the + button
  Nothing at all appears. That is no selections to choose from.

  Realize the + button is faded, despite that the other buttons (- and
  others) light up.

  Expected results
  Alternative keyboard layouts should appear to choose from.

  
  Release
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.10
  Release:	11.10

  uname -r
  3.0.0-12-generic

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