You need to run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' and configure your keyboard, then run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg' to update the xorg.conf. Then you have changed the setting permanently. A user being unable to change it from Gnome seems like a bug in gnome-control- center.
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: xserver-xorg-input-keyboard => gnome-control-center -- KB language setting resets at reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183974 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for gnome-control-center in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
