For Greek users, we created live CDs for Ubuntu 12.04 to work around the problem: http://ts.sch.gr/wiki/Linux/LiveCD
Other countries affected by this grave bug are: $ grep XKBLAYOUT=us, keyboard-configuration.config | sort -u XKBLAYOUT=us,am # Armenia XKBLAYOUT=us,ara # Arabic XKBLAYOUT=us,bd # Bangladesh XKBLAYOUT=us,bg # Bulgaria XKBLAYOUT=us,bt # Bhutan XKBLAYOUT=us,by # Belarus XKBLAYOUT=us,ge # Georgia XKBLAYOUT=us,gr # Greece XKBLAYOUT=us,il # Israel XKBLAYOUT=us,in # India XKBLAYOUT=us,ir # Iran XKBLAYOUT=us,kg # Kyrgyzstan XKBLAYOUT=us,kh # Cambodia XKBLAYOUT=us,kz # Kazakhstan XKBLAYOUT=us,la # Laos XKBLAYOUT=us,lk # Sri Lanka XKBLAYOUT=us,ma # Morocco XKBLAYOUT=us,mk # Macedonia XKBLAYOUT=us,mn # Mongolia XKBLAYOUT=us,np # Nepal XKBLAYOUT=us,ru # Russia XKBLAYOUT=us,si # Sri Lanka XKBLAYOUT=us,th # Thailand XKBLAYOUT=us,tj # Tajikistan XKBLAYOUT=us,ua # Ukraine -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1016409 Title: Default XKBLAYOUT is not used, so new users only have "en" layout Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I installed Ubuntu 12.04 in Greek. The following were correctly put in my /etc/default/keyboard: XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="us,gr" XKBVARIANT="," XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" The user that did the installation correctly has the option to switch between "English (us)/Greek (gr)" in lightdm, and gets the keyboard switching applet in the panel indicator. His /var/lib/AccountsService/users/alkisg contains: XKeyboardLayouts=us;gr; I create a new user, either with the UI, or with adduser. Before she logs in, while still in lightdm, she doesn't have the option to switch between "English (us)/Greek (gr)". After she logs in, she doesn't get the keyboard layout applet. Her /var/lib/AccountsService/users/newuser contains: XKeyboardLayouts= So I guess the problem is that either accounts-service should return the system-wide XKBLAYOUT for new users, or lightdm should read the system-wide defaults when accounts-service returns "unset". Here are the results of `setxkbmap -print` for the user that did the installation, where everything is fine: xkb_keymap { xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" }; xkb_types { include "complete" }; xkb_compat { include "complete+ledscroll(group_lock)" }; xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+gr:2+inet(evdev)+group(alt_shift_toggle)" }; xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" }; }; And here they are for the new user, which doesn't have the ability to switch the keyboard layout: xkb_keymap { xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" }; xkb_types { include "complete" }; xkb_compat { include "complete" }; xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)" }; xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" }; }; To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1016409/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
