Recover X defaults to US keyboard map

Binary package hint: friendly-recovery

The "Recover X" option during recovery mode is an excellent way to fix a severely broken xorg.conf .

Unfortunately it defaults to the US keyboard map, which is almost unusable for many other nationalities. For example, # and @ are almost impossible to discover with a US keyboard map on a UK keyboard. This prevents many simple tasks such as typing an email address.

Recover X should:

* Attempt to guess the most recent keyboard layout from (the remains of) xorg.conf
* Prompt the user to confirm this guess or select a national keyboard layout from a list using the up/down cursor keys and enter key.

This can be worked around, once booted into Gnome, by selecting System - Preferences - Keyboard, but this is not at all obvious to a typical user.

"Where is this British hash key?
Left of return? No!
Shift-apostrophe? No!
Shift-3, the mild-mannered currency symbol?
Could be!

Hong Kong hashkey, looks like I recovered X
Hong Kong hashkey, US keyboard map in text
Keyboard map, a British chap, and the symbols all gone wrong
With a quick shift-3, where Sterling should be, there's the hash key all along!"