Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #1875062
  2. Comment #63

Comment 63 for bug 1875062

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Nicolas Mouart (nm9999) wrote : Re: [20.04] Keyboard layout not enabled immediately during installation when typing username/password

Looked at it further.

Basically gnome-shell is overriding ubiquity's changes when ubuntu-drivers installs silently oem drivers on VMware products env ( or Virtualbox with default/recommended VMSVGA controller), namely open-vm-tools package.

udevadm trigger is executed and as a result Xorg and gnome-shell re-read their config including keyboard layouts. gnome-shell overrides changes made by Xorg which uses /etc/default/keyboard ( written/updated by ubiaquity) settings.

It doesn't seem possible to stop gnome-shell updating xkb layouts.

A possible solution would be to make sure the gnome-session behind ubiquity also uses the same keyboard layout ( which makes sense during a direct ubuntu install).
Something like that :

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "[('xkb', 'fr')]"