Does not apply keyboard layout during installation
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Affects:
* Ubuntu 19.04 amd64 Desktop installer (main flavour, UEFI booted)
Does not affect:
* Ubuntu 18.04.2 amd64 Desktop installer (main flavour, UEFI booted)
When installing on 19.04, keeping the default English installer language, but setting the keyboard layout to German -> German, I can use my German keyboard to type special characters such as "ö" and "ß" just fine on the "Type here to test you keyboard" input field.
However, continuing with these choices does not seem to apply them during the installer / live session. By the time the installer reaches the "Who are you?" screen, the keyboard layout is reset to US-English, so typing the "ö" character on my keyboard produces a ";" character on screen.
This behaved differently on 18.04.2. There, if a non-US-English keyboard layout was chosen on the respective installation step, this setting would prevail until and after the "Who are you?" screen, so entering a full name and passwords containing special characters from the localized keyboard layout is possible (I just tested this).
This issue *may* be what also causes what is described in bug 1826409.
| Tom Reynolds (tomreyn) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Workaround:
Before starting the installation (or after cancelling it during the first steps), click on "Activities" (top left corner of the screen), then type "settings" and press enter to bring up the "Settings" application. There, click on "Region & Language" on the left column menu, then, under "Input sources" click the "+" icon and select the preferred keyboard layout. Then click the trash icon next to the "English" 'input source' to delete this keyboard layout and make the preferred one default. Starting the installer now will make it use the desired keyboard layout both during the installation and on the installed system.