I've been hitting this problem for several weeks and tearing my hair over it. (Basically, I'm setting up a semi-automated install environment for rolling out about 250 Ubuntu 14.04 workstations - so fiddling about with GUI settings on each machine wasn't an option.)
The variant of the problem which I experienced was that although /etc/default/keyboard specifies gb layout, all the desktops except Unity defaulted to US layout, and "ibus engine" reported "xkb:us::eng". In my case, the following steps appear to have fixed the problem: 1) I edited /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.freedesktop.ibus.gschema.xml, and set the value for "use-system-keyboard-layout" to "true". I then ran "glib- compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas". After this, all the desktops defaulted to GB layout - but "ibus engine" still reported "xkb:us::eng". 2) I had noticed in passing that when I ran "ibus list-engine", there wasn't a setting for "xkb:gb::eng" - only "xkb:gb:extd:eng", which didn't quite match the definition in /etc/default/keyboard (there was also one for the dvorak keyboard.) So I tried editing /usr/share/ibus/component/simple.xml, duplicating the engine definition for "xkb:gb:extd:eng" as "xkb:gb::eng", and then running "ibus restart". After this, "ibus engine" reported that it was using "xkb:gb::eng". I've spent so long on this and run down so many false trails that I don't fully believe it yet - I'll reinstall the test box from scratch and apply the above again a few more times, then I'll report back. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240198 Title: [SRU]Wrong keyboard layout active after booting into desktop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1240198/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
