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

[Chascon]

I've upgraded to Precise and the issue continues. This is what I've done
since then without results that stick.

Thinking that the problem is linked to the fact that I uninstalled
other-than-English language support with BleachBit, I did the following.
reinstalled language-selector-gnome reinstalled language-pack-en-base

I went back to now called Keyboard Layout and the + button is still
faded.

I even went so far as to add Spanish locale to see if I could add
another layout, but this didn't make a difference. I can't add any
layouts to the ones I already have installed (US alternative, US
International, English Mac, and the International alt/Gr version).

I tried the following: dpkg-reconfigure locales update-locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Although it did seem to update my locale settings, when I went back to
the now called Keyboard Layout, the + button was still faded.

I haven't tried dpkg-reconfigure localeconfig because this is not
installed and apparently xkeyboard-config is an eol.

xkb-data looks promissing from the read in software-center: "This
package contains configuration data used by the X Keyboard Extension
(XKB), which allows selection of keyboard layouts when using a graphical
interface."

A quick wajig reinstall xkb-data proved my hopes wrong.

It seems the only thing that temporarily allowed me to install more
layouts was sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration. I selected the
colemak layout to see if took. I ran it but by the time I rebooted, the
change didn't stick. Plugging in an external keyboard also makes colemak
in the applet disappear.

The strange thing about using  dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
is that the app menu applet shows the change but System Settings -->
Keyboard Layout doesn't. It always shows the eternal US alternative, US
International, English Mac, and the International alt/Gr layouts. And I
can never add a layout through this pane.

I just reinstalled iso-codes, and for a few minutes I saw that the
keyboard Unity "applet" showed colemak I had installed previously with.
I relogged back in and it was gone but colemak shows in cat
/etc/default/keyboard but not in Xorg. A quick alt+cntl F1 show me that
it did take, only in console.

"XKBMODEL="pc104" XKBLAYOUT="us" XKBVARIANT="colemak"
XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"


Somehow I don't think sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration was meant to (only?) change the console layout.

I'm just reading /etc/default/keyboard and it says the following.

If you change any of the following variables and X is configured to use
this file, then the changes will become visible to X only if udev is
restarted. You may need to reboot the system.

I can assume that X is listening, at least until I reboot, when changes
are thrown away. So, I assume there is a conflict between more than one
file or sets of files as to which layouts take predominance.

Any ideas anyone? This one has me stumped.

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Title:
  Alternative keyboard layouts missing in Keyboard Preferences in
  Oneiric

Status in GNOME Control Center:
  New
Status in central project for keyboard configuration:
  New
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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