Public bug reported:
Up to ubuntu-mate-18.04.1.iso, everything was fine. Starting with
18.04.2, XKB_OPTIONS does not contain "alt_shift_toggle" anymore and we
cannot switch the keyboard layout to e.g. Greek using Alt+Shift.
Reading the changelog, I see:
$ ~/source/ubiquity$ git show 786a5325ef
+console-setup (1.178ubuntu6) cosmic; urgency=medium
+
+ * keyboard-configuration.{config,templates}: There is no good default for
+ layout toggling, stop pretending there is. Console users can set one
+ with dpkg-reconfigure or editing /etc/defaults/keyboard (LP: #1762952)
I'm guessing that ubiquity duplicates some code from console-setup, and
LP: #1762952 caused this regression.
To reproduce:
1) Start ubuntu-mate-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
2) Select Ελληνικά (Greek) and start installing Ubuntu using the default options
3) Right after the keyboard layout step, run:
$ grep XKBOPTIONS /etc/default/keyboard
XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
4) Verify that you can switch to Greek with Alt+Shift
Starting from ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso (.1=OK, .2=BAD), we cannot
switch to Greek using Alt+Shift anymore:
$ grep XKBOPTIONS /etc/default/keyboard
XKBOPTIONS="grp_led:scroll"
Does ubiquity really expect the users to run `dpkg-reconfigure console-
setup`?
Note that selecting Greek in the syslinux menu produces the correct
XKBOPTIONS, yet ubiquity overwrites them later on with the wrong ones.
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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18.04.14.7 regression: no alt_shift_toggle in XKBOPTIONS
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