On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:44:45PM +0200, Miroslav Kure wrote: > the config script sets debconf variable > xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/keyboard/options without actually > checking for existing preseeded value and therefore overwrides it > headlessly. > > You can trigger this easily on new installs in Czech where > localization-config sets > .../keyboard/layout to us,cz_qwerty > .../keyboard/options to grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll > > but after this config we end up with empty .../keyboard/options, thus > locking users in foreign keyboard layout. > > > On a similar note, dpkg-reconfigure initializes value of > xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/keyboard/layout with value based on > installation keyboard and not with current debconf value, which I > consider rather strange.
Yes, this is designed for the autodetection case. We added an autodetect_keyboard template in Ubuntu, which asks if you want the keyboard layout to be guessed from the installer's layout again, else all the settings get left alone.
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