I've been hitting this problem for several weeks and tearing my hair over it. (Basically, I'm setting up a semi-automated install environment for rolling out about 250 Ubuntu 14.04 workstations - so fiddling about with GUI settings on each machine wasn't an option.)
The variant of the problem which I experienced was that although /etc/default/keyboard specifies gb layout, all the desktops except Unity defaulted to US layout, and "ibus engine" reported "xkb:us::eng". In my case, the following steps appear to have fixed the problem: 1) I edited /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.ibus.gschema.xml, and set the value for "use-system-keyboard-layout" to "true". I then ran "glib- compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas". After this, all the desktops defaulted to GB layout - but "ibus engine" still reported "xkb:us::eng". 2) I had noticed in passing that when I ran "ibus list-engine", there wasn't a setting for "xkb:gb::eng" - only "xkb:gb:extd:eng", which didn't quite match the definition in /etc/default/keyboard (there was also one for the dvorak keyboard.) So I tried editing /usr/share/ibus/component/simple.xml, duplicating the engine definition for "xkb:gb:extd:eng" as "xkb:gb::eng", and then running "ibus restart". After this, "ibus engine" reported that it was using "xkb:gb::eng". I've spent so long on this and run down so many false trails that I don't fully believe it yet - I'll reinstall the test box from scratch and apply the above again a few more times, then I'll report back. -- 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: [SRU]Wrong keyboard layout active after booting into desktop Status in ibus package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in indicator-keyboard package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in ibus source package in Trusty: Fix Committed Status in indicator-keyboard source package in Trusty: Won't Fix Bug description: [Impact] When first boot into Unity desktop, English keyboard layout is active while all other parts of the system language settings are set to another language (e.g. German). The bug is properly addressed in newer upstream releases in Vivid, but the changes is too intrusive and not suitable for being back ported in SRU. And changing the default to use system keyboard layout solves the problem. [Test Case] 1. Set the system language to something other than English, e.g. German. 2. Create a new user, log in to the Unity desktop of the new user. 3. Check the keyboard layout, it should be German instead of English. [Regression Potential] Since this changes the default value of the keyboard layout settings by using system defined as default, it avoids using ibus's built-in keyboard layout related functionality, so that this could be a regression for users rely on this certain behavior (e.g. use English keyboard while want to keep the system language settings to German), but such behavior is not expected for normal usage. 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
