On 2020-08-18 15:35, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: >> Why is there a need to switch keyboard layout during the >> installation? > > One example is to set the user name, e.g. Διαχειριστής > (Administrator).
That makes me think of bug #1875062. > Another is to be able to surf etc while ubiquity is running in the > background. Ok.. >> As regards post-install, i.e. at first boot/login, the desktop >> environment ought to provide some default shortcut for switching >> input sources. > > By with package? Xorg by itself supports Alt+Shift, and this worked > fine up to 18.04.1, while it broke in 18.04.2, is "plain xkb" now > unsupported? No, XKB is not unsupported. This topic is a can of worms. If you read the story at bug #1762952, you'll see that the previous behavior, where console-setup aggressively set Alt+Shift in /etc/default/keyboard for all users, caused confusion and issues for users with the GNOME desktop. My proposal, to stop it from doing so only at package upgrades, was first accepted but then reversed due to some ubiquity regression. Adam Conrad's conclusion was to completely stop console-setup from automatically setting Alt+Shift. I can't tell which solution would be best to fit all the desktop environments. > By default, MATE doesn't ship ibus or fcitx, isn't that OK? I haven't > tested in other flavors yet.. I can't imagine that IBus or Fcitx would be needed to handle this. If MATE depends on XKB for input source switching, there must be other ways to do it besides letting console-setup set Alt+Shift by default for all users. On Ubuntu there is a dconf setting: gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options Probably there is some equivalent dconf key on MATE. > `setxkbmap -query` shows the wrong settings now; if one runs `dpkg- > reconfigure keyboard-configuration` after installation, then it > works fine again. How do you define "right" and "wrong" in this context? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1892014 Title: 18.04.14.7 regression: no alt_shift_toggle in XKBOPTIONS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1892014/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
