To anyone else who might have this issue, here's a permanent work around. Open a terminal and edit console-setup config to manually input the thinkpad variant.
gksu /etc/default/console-setup and look for a line that reads XKBVARIANT="" and change it to XKBVARIANT="thinkpad" After that, a logout should suffice for X11, if not, restart hal. For console, sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup would do the job, in theory, but since it's missing the variant this will either overwrite the manual change, or present a TUI menu to configure the layout, showing the same options that Gnome's (and KDE's?) GUI show. It appears this bug is indeed about the specific information not existing in a central location (package xkb-data?), AUIU. -- abnt2 keyboard layout missing thinkpad variant https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359719 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
