A work-around to actually setting the keyboard layout (to Norwegian): d-i preseed/late_command string \ in-target /bin/sed -i "s/XKBMODEL=\"[a-z]*\"/XKBMODEL=\"pc105\"/g" /etc/default/keyboard ; \ in-target /bin/sed -i "s/XKBLAYOUT=\"[a-z]*\"/XKBLAYOUT=\"no\"/g" /etc/default/keyboard ; \ in-target /bin/sed -i "s/XKBVARIANT=\"[a-z]*\"/XKBVARIANT=\"\"/g" /etc/default/keyboard ; \ in-target /bin/sed -i "s/XKBOPTIONS=\"[a-z]*\"/XKBOPTIONS=\"\"/g" /etc/default/keyboard ; \ in-target /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive keyboard-configuration ; \ in-target /usr/sbin/update-locale LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
Note, that "/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive keyboard- configuration" is necessary to get the new layout configured for X11 as well. Although the documentation says that editing /etc/default/keyboard is fine, X11 will not use the new layout unless "/usr/sbin/dpkg- reconfigure keyboard-configuration" is run. Finally, "/usr/sbin/update-locale LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8" is used to get a 24-hour clock with an en_IE.UTF-8 locale (metric, €, etc., but AM/PM clock). (A European English locale "en_EU.UTF-8" would be a nice feature.) Needless to say that this work-around is really ugly, and the installer should be fixed to automatically set the proper keyboard layout. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to console-setup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1553147 Title: xenial preseed cannot set keyboard layout Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Using network booted preseed with the following lines to configure keyboard layout: d-i console-setup/ask_detect false d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string de d-i keyboard-configuration/layout select German d-i keyboard-configuration/modelcode string pc105 System comes up with US keyboard only (see screenshot). Content of /etc/default/keyboard: XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS="" BACKSPACE="guess" Content of /etc/default/console-setup: ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" CHARMAP="UTF-8" CODESET="guess" FONTFACE="Fixed" FONTSIZE="8x16" VIDEOMODE= The same preseed file works on wily and successfully configures a German keyboard layout. The full preseed file can be found at https://github.com/jschule/ubuntu/blob/gh-pages/preseed/jts.txt Please advice how to set German keyboard layout with preseed installation. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1553147/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
