Public bug reported: Hello,
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Release: 20.04 I tried to change input locale (keyboard layout) in xorg xfce4 session on 20.04.1 (odroid C4 repo), from en-US to German. This... was not really successful. # dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration Your console font configuration will be updated the next time your system boots. If you want to update it now, run 'setupcon' from a virtual console. update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.2) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.230-35 # At this point, despite having changed layout configuration to German, this updated layout configuration state was NOT actually made effective, within my xorg xfce4 session at least. keyboard-configuration Version: 1.194ubuntu3 https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard mentions "To apply new settings, restarting the keyboard-setup service should suffice, otherwise you can try to restart kernel input system via udev: udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change or reboot the whole OS." Well, service keyboard-setup restart did not achieve it, thus I tried udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change which did achieve it (boils down to: "z is z, and y is y."). Thus, it strongly seems that keyboard-configuration (while at least providing some usability hinting about setupcon aspects already) is missing usability hinting about its rather questionably indirect/delayed handling of keyboard configuration state. Suggested pseudo code: # we don't have (XXX?) immediate activation of changed configuration state, # at least in certain environments (see https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard ) thus # at least provide some usability hinting to let the user know what to do next. if is_changed echo "Changes of keyboard configuration state possibly may not take effect immediately - instructions see docs (Wiki), or do a full reboot." fi However instead of necessitating additional exhaustive usability hinting blurbs, it might be preferable to have things simply directly Just Work (tm) as expected, in all environment contexts. Or better: do keep cleanly distinct separation of update-config-state vs. activate-config-state aspects, and cleanly implement this by: - providing an implementation-specifics-abstracted command ("keyboard-configuration-layout-refresh"?) for this particular aspect - directly referring to this simple fixed-protocol command name within usability hinting message string Also, I am somewhat suspecting that related packages (keyboard-configuration etc.) might be bit of a dependency/structural mess in general (c.f. comment 11 of #1621378). See also related Debian_bug_955215. Greetings Andreas Mohr ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1895479 Title: USABILITY: keyboard-configuration: fails to explain a possibly delayed activation of keyboard layout (input locale) configuration state To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1895479/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
