I experienced this problem on a new install of Ubuntu 14.04. I selected UK locale settings during installation, and the keyboard worked fine with the GB layout. Some time later after rebooting the keyboard was stuck on the US keymap, even though the menu bar showed "English (UK)" as selected.
My girlfriend experienced the same problem on her machine after upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04. In case it's related, both machines use gnome shell as the desktop environment. The problem occurs when logging into either gnome shell or unity. ## Work around steps 1) Open a terminal and run: ibus-setup 2) Go to "Input Method" tab, click "Customise active input methods", remove the "English (US)" entry and add your keyboard - e.g. in my case "English (UK, extended WinKeys)". 3) Reboot This retains the keyboard mapping so long as you leave it be... If you mess with the keyboard GUIs then "English (US)" comes back and becomes the default again. As others have mentioned, running setxkbmap gb also works. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ibus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1284635 Title: IBus does not support certain keyboard layouts Status in “ibus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “ibus” source package in Trusty: Triaged Bug description: installed trusty beta1 with keyboard layout set correctly during install install completes, login to new install - layout as set during install once logged in - layout set to US and keyboard layout set during install is missing from list ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: keyboard-configuration 1.70ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-12.32-generic 3.13.4 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Tue Feb 25 12:55:56 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-25 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140225) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: console-setup UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1284635/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
