I have hade the same Problem on a Laptop, i fixed it with dconf-editor: "use-system-keyboard-layout" property is enabled (But thats a Workaround)
But now i have a 5 year old ACER Veriton T661, have installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 - Result: no Problem Keyboard keeps SwissGerman like adjusted. Then i have changed the Motherboard Battery on this T661, after Reboot the Keyboard Layout has gone back to english. I set it back to SwissGerman.... shutdown, unplug the PC from Power reboot several Times ... Keyboard Layout is still swissGerman ... no Problem anymore. It looks like a Problem with the location where this information is held. Please check on the Computers with this Problem the Mainboard Battery, maybe thats the Problem? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ibus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240198 Title: Wrong keyboard layout active after booting into desktop Status in “ibus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “indicator-keyboard” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I upgraded from raring to saucy. After booting into the desktop (unity), the english keyboard layout is active, although everything on the system is set to be german (keyboard layout, language...) Switching to a virtual terminal (ctrl+alt+f1) fixes the problem and changes the layout to the german layout. all the time, the new input settings indicator says the german layout is active. locale says: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=de_DE LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL= /etc/default/keyboard says: # Check /usr/share/doc/keyboard-configuration/README.Debian for # documentation on what to do after having modified this file. # The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same # values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options # in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="de" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS="" # If you don't want to use the XKB layout on the console, you can # specify an alternative keymap. Make sure it will be accessible # before /usr is mounted. # KMAP=/etc/console-setup/defkeymap.kmap.gz ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: indicator-keyboard 0.0.0+13.10.20131010.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Oct 15 20:49:03 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-26 (171 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: indicator-keyboard UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-13 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1240198/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp