Keyboard layout switcher is chauvinistic and always reverts back to English

[nonhocapito]

Mint 21.1 Cinnamon. I have three keyboard layouts set in the system.

English is not even the actual layout of the physical keyboard, just an extra layout.

In the keyboard options, English is the third down the list.

Yet, no matter what I select in the panel, upon restarting the system the layout always reverts back to English.

If this is not chauvinism, I don't know what is.

[Cosmo.]

A defective user account?

Open Users & Groups and create a new account for testing. Reboot and log into the new account. How does it appear there?

[regmar]

You may check /etc/default/keyboard. XKBLAYOUT="us"?

[nonhocapito]

You may check /etc/default/keyboard. XKBLAYOUT="us"?

No. The default is correctly indicated as the layout of the physical keyboard.

[nonhocapito]

It seems the problem was created by the "Onboard" app.

The Onboard keyboard app does reflect different layouts when they are switched from outside of the app, but internally only allows the "English" layout, and causes this to be the default at startup.

I'd be happy to use the provided cinnamon On-screen Keyboard applet instead, except that one's even worse: it only has the English layout, and it doesn't change to anything else even when the user selects a new layout from outside the applet.

[billyswong]

The Onboard keyboard app does reflect different layouts when they are switched from outside of the app, but internally only allows the "English" layout, and causes this to be the default at startup.

If it is so, would it help if you delay the startup of Onboard?

[nonhocapito]

I take it back. It is not Onboard. I removed it from startup, but I still get the English keyboard layout selected at startup for no reason at all.

I doubt this is a "corrupted account". I am pretty sure this is a straight bug.

Is there anyone out there whose physical keyboard layout is not English, who can try this?

[Cosmo.]

My keyboard layout is German and it stays so.
The same, if I launch Onboard.

[nonhocapito]

My keyboard layout is German and it stays so.
The same, if I launch Onboard.

Do you have other keyboard layouts installed, or only German?

[nonhocapito]

I suspect this may be a bug related to the "Languages" settings.

I have "English" set for Language and Time Format, while I have another locale set for Region.

And, like I mentioned above, I have three kb layouts, of which English is the third in list.

I think Mint ignores the order of kb layouts, and looks instead into the Language settings, thinking it's doing me a favor by using the layout that matches it.

WRONG. Many people use a language for the OS, and another for the Layout simply because their physical keyboard is in another language.

[Cosmo.]

I use temporarily also English. But I get English only, if I switch to it; very easy to find out with the keys y and z.

[nonhocapito]

I use temporarily also English. But I get English only, if I switch to it; very easy to find out with the keys y and z.

As I mentioned in the above post, is German being used in your "Languages" settings, or English?

[Cosmo.]

German

[heka]

I have installed Mint 21.1. Cinamon and set first keyboard Czech, second German and third English {US}. After every start-up the default keyboard was set to English. Tried a lot of tips/corrections suggested in this forum, nothing helped. Finally I have done the following – in the keyboard setting removed English us keyboard and replaced it with English Australian one. I cannot see substantial difference between both on the layout. After reboot, the default keyboard in the systray was set to the first keyboard, i.e. Czech.