[Edgy Beta] Xkb group switching option missing

I do not know if ubiquity automagically sets the keyboard options in GNOME directly at System/Preferences/Keyboard (therefore in gconf) and does not touch xorg.conf.
Could someone test?

Well, that's exactly the point this bug report is trying to make.

It's totally irrelevant what the Edgy installer does with Gnome or gconf or KDE or whatever. It matters what it does to the xorg.conf, the basis of all, so that all Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Fluxbuntu, nUbuntu and whatever else *buntu installed systems do not lack a support for switching among the installed and selected keyboard layouts.

do you thing bug 46046 is related?
     https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/46046

from that bug's report:
> I've installed ubuntu dapper Beta1 with ubiquity.
> My keyboard layout was configured to "be" and keyboard
> model "pc105" which is good.
> Now I ran « sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg »
> and my keyboard falls to "pc104" and layout "us".
> Shouldn't it remember my preferences from the first installation ?

Perhaps it is indeed related. I actually don't know if ubiquity explicitly writes to xorg.conf or passes parameters to dpkg-reconfigure.

But in either case, the resulted xorg.conf from a 6.10 installation only contains
XkbOptions "lv3:ralt_switch,grp_led:scroll", while the resulted xorg.conf from a 6.06 installation contained "grp:alt_shift_toggle" as well. I think the latter should get back at the default xorg.conf :)

I doubt that bug 46046 is related.

I just tested the Ubuntu 6.10 beta edgy eft *alternate* cd image, and specifically the text-mode installation method. I have to say it is much more friendly towards multi-language installations.

The debian installer asks the user which combination he desires for switching keyboards and presents him the choices of "Alt + Shift", "Ctrl + Shift", etc etc (whatever else combination xkb supports). After the installation it has of course set properly the option in xorg.conf.

Can something similar be done in ubuquity ? It would be very helpful, TIA.

At the moment I don't intend to offer that level of control in ubiquity (although I will be adding a keyboard variant option); I'll simply fix the bug that prevents setting a sensible default. You can change it after installation using 'dpkg-reconfigure console-setup'.

console-setup (1.7ubuntu13) edgy; urgency=low

  * Remove obsolete XORGCONFIGFILE variable.
  * Reset console-setup/toggle to the default if it's set to "No toggling"
    and you select a non-Latin layout (closes: Malone #63178).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:47:58 +0100