Xfce - keyboard layout defaults to US on startup

**pickarooney** · August 8th, 2015

This has just started happening recently - my keyboard defaults to US each time I start the PC. I need to manually use setxkbmap gb to reset it to UK layout.
The keyboard layout in XFCE's settings have only one entry - GB - and the various .rc files I've tried to set are all GB-based as well.

I made an executable script with just one line "setxkbmap gb" in my home directory which works when run from a shell and added it to the application startup but I still end up with US layout when I log in.
So, either the autostart is being ignored or else something else is overwriting the script after it's run.

Is there somewhere else I could add the command to ensure that it's the last thing run on startup?

**Vladlenin5000** · August 8th, 2015

Perhaps you should remove the default US keyboard if you don't need it.

**pickarooney** · August 10th, 2015

I don't have a default US keyboard anywhere (that I know of)

**Bashing-om** · August 10th, 2015

pickarooney; Hello;

Maybe as simple as having the system re-configure the keyboard identification ?

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

Which will start an interactive wizard to set the keyboard environment .

maybe yes ?

**pickarooney** · August 20th, 2015

After trying everything I could think of, the issue disappeared after updating to ubuntu 14.10. Strange

**Bashing-om** · August 20th, 2015

pickarooney; Welp,

Good news.
That is a step in the right direction, but need to keep on step'n.
Release 14.10 is End_Of_Life and is no longer supported. Step on up to 15.04 (EOL Jan).
Will get a Long Term Support Release (16.04) in April of 2016 .

newer can be better