Ubuntu 11.04. Wrong keyboard keeps reappearing as default
When I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop there was a problem with selecting a keyboard other than USA. If I selected any other keyboard the installation hung for minutes, so eventually I accepted the USA keyboard thinking I would change it later. Everything installed so I went to System Settings and chose Keyboard in the Control Center and under the Layout tab I removed the USA keyboard and added a German one.
However after every reboot the USA keyboard was back and worse still was default, so I had to keep switching back to German. Removing the USA only resulted in it reappearing after a reboot.
Eventually I found the answer. Go to /etc/default/keyboard
and change the line XKBLAYOUT="us"
to your desired keyboard and re-boot.
XKBMODEL="pc105"
#XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBLAYOUT="de"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""
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