Keyboard layout reverting to US on (every) reboot

[JamesParnell]

I live in the UK, and have the default UK keyboard, with the layout as US on ubuntu, so I changed it to UK, deleted the US one, applied System-wide. which was fine until it rebooted, then it went right back to US...why is that?...and how can i fix it?

[boxcorner]

What I did is:
System > Preferences > Keyboard preference > Layouts tab
Select keyboard model
Select layout United Kingdom
Apply system-wide
£ above 3 works for me
If that's what you're trying to achieve
Hope that helps

Addendum [Friday, 26 February 2010 10:29 AM]
There's an option for selecting the keyboard at the bottom of the login screen.

[s1wood]

I have exactly the same problem with my new install. I've done the 'preferences' bit and removed the USA option but it reverts at every boot.
I have automatic log-in so I don't see the log-in screen.

Any known way of removing the USA keyboard permanently?

Susan

[MrNatewood]

Similar problem.
Set layouts to
-USA Internations(AltGr dead keys)
-Israel

And it resets every boot to USA.

I should add that clicking on "Reset to Defaults" applies my chosen layouts. but again reverts to USA after reboot.

What configuration file does ubuntu "ask" to find out which layouts to set at boot?

I am using Karmic 64.

[s1wood]

Strangely, mine has worked OK since I complained about it!

Susan

[vratnica]

similar problem

my default is bosnian layout, with german as additional one

every time I reboot, it switches to some strange layout which doesn't give me letters but some strange symbols. So I always have to remove that stupid layout called ba, de

Any solution?

[ianmackinnon]

I have similar problems on two computers running 9.10.

I would like to have just UK and Latin American layouts installed but I keep being attacked by zombie keyboard layouts.

On my desktop (shere the system language is Spanish) every time I login the Spanish (ES) layout has been added and is selected even though I remove it every time.

On my netbook (system language English) every week or so a ghost layout appears as '??' in the system tray icon and produces a seemingly arbitrary group of symbols.

Does anyone know what parts of the OS have the capacity to install new layouts and how to determine which one is responsible?

Any help appreciated!

[c.j.stephen]

I found the same problem, but only on my wife's account. I'd set her keyboard layout to UK through Gnome preferences and every time the US layout would reappear and be selected frustratingly.

It turned out that on the gdm login screen her choice of keyboard layout in the discreet option bar at the bottom of the screen was set to US. That was then overriding the Gnome layout preference.

Solution: Selecting the appropriate keyboard layout on the next login solved the problem and GDM remembered the preference for next time.

This isn't what the user would expect to happen. Is there a way to unify / synchronise the GDM and Gnome keyboard layout preferences ?

[vratnica]

well, I don't have any login screen

[littlesatan]

well, I don't have any login screen

Go System → Administration → Login Screen and choose «Show the screen for choosing who will log in».