I had a problem of the USA keyvoard re-appearing on every boot along with my chosen layouts(usa altgr and israel). So at every boot I had to remove it from Preferences->Keyboard.
I followed advice here, removing dmrc, and %gconf.xml. Also edited /etc/default/console-setup as advised on one of the duplicates of this. to show: XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="us,il" XKBVARIANT="altgr-intl," XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" And now on every boot I *only* have the standard USA keyboard. Clicking on "Reset to Defaults" in "Keyboard Preferences" changes to my preferred setting(us algr-intl and israel), without the standard USA(exactly as I want it to be). This reverts on every boot so I have to go to keyboard preferences and reset to defaults every time I log in. Apply system-wide doesn't help either. I am using Karmic 64, gdm version 2.28.1-0ubuntu2.1(latest from official repo) -- gdm ignores keyboard layout selection for variants https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421212 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs