Jimbo, have you tried removing all keymaps (aka input sources) and re-adding them? I heard this helped occasionally, at least before Trusty. In Trusty the settings panel can be reached with unity-control-center region
I'm not sure about the later comments, but your initial description sounds like old bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/837456 The workaround back then was to run (for French keys) setxkbmap fr This would pin the keymap down for the current session at least. Does that still help? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to onboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1302770 Title: keymap unstable Status in “onboard” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: on a tablet pc, once the keyboard has been deactivate, if I try to reactivate the keymapping don't load my language, but the American. The same after using Onboard keyboard on screen, the real ones changed the map. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/onboard/+bug/1302770/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

