I'm able to reproduce Sebastien's success by following the steps in comment #9.
At the same time I'm able to reproduce the failure as reported by both Pjotr12345 and myself via these steps: - boot the iso - patiently wait, without pressing any key, until Ubiquity boots [yes Seb, I can be patient sometimes] -> Ubiquity is booted with English preselected (see attached image) - Change to Nederlands -> The display language changes instantly - Click the "ubuntu installieren" button -> The basic English (US) layout is selected So it seems like the language must be selected before Ubiquity boots to get a reasonably guessed preselected layout. But how would the user know that pressing a key initially makes a difference when they are not told so? The official installation instruction here: https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-install-ubuntu-desktop does not mention the syslinux menu either. The desired behavior is reasonably that when you change the language on Ubiquity's welcome screen, the preselected layout should be changed to match the selected language (just as the display language is). Btw, with the press-a-key approach, "Try Ubuntu" enters a session with the correct layout in /etc/default/keyboard. So yes, this is probably a pure ubiquity bug, not affecting gnome-settings-daemon. ** Attachment added: "ubiquity-welcome.jpeg" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1758647/+attachment/5101934/+files/ubiquity-welcome.jpeg ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: High => Undecided ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: Confirmed => Invalid ** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu Bionic) Assignee: Sebastien Bacher (seb128) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758647 Title: ubiquity doesn't preselect the right default keyboard layout Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gnome-settings-daemon source package in Bionic: Invalid Status in ubiquity source package in Bionic: Confirmed Bug description: In Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, daily builds of March 25, the right default keymap isn't preselected when you select "Nederlands" (i.e. Dutch) as language for the installation. It's now "English, US" but should be: "English (US) - English (US, intl., with dead keys)". Or, in other words, it should be: XKBLAYOUT="us" XKBVARIANT="intl" (additional remark in order to prevent any misunderstandings: the original Dutch keyboard (nl) has completely disappeared long ago, so all keyboards sold in the Netherlands have US keyboards which need the "intl" xkbvariant with dead keys, in order to be able to type accents) This is a regression, at least compared with Ubuntu 16.04 and earlier (I don't know about 16.10, 17.04 and 17.10). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1758647/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
