[Bug 1900257] Re: XKBVARIANT setting in /etc/default/keyboard not respected

[Luzius Thöny]

I have confirmed this issue today on a fresh install of groovy. So it is
not an upgrade issue.

A workaround is to put the setxkbmap command into a bash script and have
it run on session startup.

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Title:
  XKBVARIANT setting in /etc/default/keyboard not respected

Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After upgrading to the pre-release version of Ubuntu 20.10 (groovy)
  today, I noticed that the setting for XKBVARIANT in
  /etc/default/keyboard is not respected anymore. In my case, I have set
  XKBVARIANT="altgr-gmc" in that file, but the variant is not loaded
  after a fresh boot:

  lou at onyx:~$ setxkbmap -query
  rules:      evdev
  model:      pc105
  layout:     us

  If I load the variant manually, then it works:

  lou at onyx:~$ setxkbmap us -variant altgr-gmc
  lou at onyx:~$ setxkbmap -query
  rules:      evdev
  model:      pc105
  layout:     us
  variant:    altgr-gmc

  But this lasts only until the next reboot.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
  Package: console-setup 1.195ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-23.24-generic 5.8.14
  Uname: Linux 5.8.0-23-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Sat Oct 17 16:58:13 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-06-30 (475 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Alpha amd64 (20190630)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: console-setup
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2020-10-17 (0 days ago)

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