Public bug reported: Ubuntu 21-04 installed from scratch (on dual-boot) a few days before stable release.
To be able to switch to a language that requires a keyboard different than my own, I used the GUI's "language and region" settings > "manage installed languages" > install/remove languages. I found "Russian" and it was added. Next i pressed the + sign. Selecting "Russian (Russian Federation)" yielded 2 keyboards: "Russian", "Russian (Polyglot and Reactionary)". Neither keyboard was "phonetic". The phonetic keyboard has been with the standard Ubuntu installs for at least ten years. According to Gunnar Hjalmarsson "Ubuntu 21.04 is shipped with the same version of the xkb-data package as in 20.04 and 20.10, so nothing has changed. And multiple variants are available, including the one named Russian (phonetic)." So this should be fairly easy to fix, no? I find that the language settings are a little too complicated for me to tamper with on the terminal, but I am including the information I was able to collect: ~$ locale -a C C.UTF-8 en_AG en_AG.utf8 ... nb_NO.utf8 POSIX ru_RU.utf8 ru_UA.utf8 $ setxkbmap -print -verbose Trying to build keymap using the following components: keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty) types: complete compat: complete symbols: pc+us+inet(evdev) geometry: pc(pc105) xkb_keymap { xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" }; xkb_types { include "complete" }; xkb_compat { include "complete" }; xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)" }; xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" }; }; ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.38.5-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-16.17-generic 5.11.12 Uname: Linux 5.11.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Apr 23 13:51:25 2021 InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-04-19 (3 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Beta amd64 (20210331.1) SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug hirsute wayland-session -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1925792 Title: Russian phonetic keyboard unavailable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1925792/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs