Cannot switch keyboard layouts

Question

My default keyboard layout is Norwegian (from the 12.04 installation procedure). But I also want to use Icelandic.

Two layouts in the "system settings" → "keyboard layouts" is one too many. I cannot switch either using a shortcut or in the Panel.

The Panel tells me I have switched, but the letters I type are Norwegian, even when the Panel seems to have switched to Icelandic.

My language for menus and windows ("system settings" → "language support") is English. "Regional formats" → "Display numbers, dates ….": English Denmark,

What am I doing wrong?

Solution 1

Maybe you can try this:

sudo setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle no,ru

This maybe can help you but you have to do it everytime you log in to your system. You can add this command to execute

Solution 2

OP-provided answer, probably inspired by @ashutosh

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To enable toggling between two keyboards for current session:

  sudo setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle no,is  

To permanently set several keyboards (Norwegian, Icelandic, Spanish)

  sudo gedit /etc/default/keyboard  

Edit line 2 thus:

  XKBMODEL="pc105"
  XKBLAYOUT="no, is, es"
  XKBVARIANT=""
  XKBOPTIONS=""

Comments

[Jjed]

What do you mean by "one to many". Please clarify, what have you changed in Keyboard layouts? Do you see a keyboard icon in the upper right?

[kle]

Yes, Ashutosh! It worked. But is there no file I can open to edit in the line?

[ashutosh]

If it worked for you, then please make it the answer, file would have been different, so i think there is another file to have that line. PLease make it the answer if it helped you