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Incorrect LAYOUT is set when choosing Lithuanian in dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration and Ubiquity

Bug #1863001 reported by Mantas Kriaučiūnas on 2020-02-12

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	console-setup (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #951387
	console-setup (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

If user chooses Lithuanian keyboard layout during installation (Ubiquity) or dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration then incorrect layout is set in /etc/default/keyboard :

XKBLAYOUT="lt,lt"
XKBVARIANT=",us"

This configuration is not intuitive, because people think, that sometimes Lithuanian keyboard works (when lt1 is selected in GNOME shell panel) and sometimes doesn't work (when lt2 is selected).

So, majority of Lithuanian users are force to removed second lt(us) layout and add English (US) altgr-intl layout.

So, correct /etc/default/keyboard should be:

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="lt,us"
XKBVARIANT=",altgr-intl"
XKBOPTIONS="grp_led:scroll"
BACKSPACE="guess"

I'm attaching a patch to debian/keyboard-configuration.config file which fixes this issue

See original description

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote on 2020-02-12:

Screenshot of English US (intl with altGR) keyboard layoyut Edit (99.2 KiB, image/png)

When user chooses Lithuanian keyboard layout then XKB variables in /etc/default/keyboard should set to:
XKBLAYOUT="lt,us"
XKBVARIANT=",altgr-intl"

I'm attaching screenshot of English US (intl with altGR) keyboard layoyut, this layout is most usefull for Lithuanians, because it contains Euro (€) and other symbols, often used in Lithuania.

Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) on 2020-02-12

summary:

Incorrect LAYOUT is set when choosing Lithuanian in dpkg-reconfigure
- keyboard-configuration
+ keyboard-configuration and Ubiquity

Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) on 2020-02-13

tags:

added: bionic focal

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote on 2020-02-13:

Patch against console-setup-1.194ubuntu2/debian/keyboard-configuration.config - fixes LT layout Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain)

This patch replaces not intuitive secondary lt(us) layout with us(altgr-intl), which uses majority of Lithuanian users as secondary layout.

description:	updated
tags:	added: patch
summary:	- Incorrect LAYOUT is set when choosing Lithuanian in dpkg-reconfigure - keyboard-configuration and Ubiquity + [PATCH] Incorrect LAYOUT is set when choosing Lithuanian in dpkg- + reconfigure keyboard-configuration and Ubiquity

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-02-13: Re: [PATCH] Incorrect LAYOUT is set when choosing Lithuanian in dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration and Ubiquity

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in console-setup (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2020-02-13:

The attachment "Patch against console-setup-1.194ubuntu2/debian/keyboard-configuration.config - fixes LT layout" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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Mathew Hodson (mhodson) on 2020-03-27

summary:	- [PATCH] Incorrect LAYOUT is set when choosing Lithuanian in dpkg- - reconfigure keyboard-configuration and Ubiquity + Incorrect LAYOUT is set when choosing Lithuanian in dpkg-reconfigure + keyboard-configuration and Ubiquity
Changed in console-setup (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2020-03-27

Changed in console-setup (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2020-03-27:

I've uploaded to focal but the build is failing :/

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/470959763/buildlog_ubuntu-focal-amd64.console-setup_1.194ubuntu3_BUILDING.txt.gz

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2020-03-27:

build worked after a retry...

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-03-27:

This bug was fixed in the package console-setup - 1.194ubuntu3

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console-setup (1.194ubuntu3) focal; urgency=medium

  [ Mantas Kriaučiūnas ]
  * keyboard-configuration.config::
    replace not intuitive second lt(us) layout with us(altgr-intl),
    which contains Euro (€) and other symbols, often used in Lithuania.
    (lp: #1863001)

-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:10:06 +0100