Keyboard layout not working in Ubuntu 18.04

18.04 keyboard-layout

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Solution 1

The solution was - restarting the system.

Solution 2

Just for information, if someone is in a similar situation and wants to avoid restarting, this worked for me. TL;DR:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options

Solution 3

Reloading Gnome after changing the keyboard language also works, which is less "destructive" than than logging out or restarting:

ALT + F2 to bring up the command box, r and Enter to reload.

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Vitaliy Terziev

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Vitaliy Terziev over 1 year

I was able to add additional keyboard layout in

Settings -> Regional & Language -> Input Sources

Bulgarian (new phonetic) to be specific. SuperSpace works fine, the Gnome icon also works fine for switching. The thing is that the layout is the same for English (US) and Bulgarian (new phonetic). Nothing changes if I try to switch, English (US) in both cases.

Any thoughts on this?
I've googled for about 20 minutes, the problems I've found are mostly not able to Super etc. and Gnome icons not working.
- Gunnar Hjalmarsson over 5 years
  
  Rebooting may be worth a try.
- Vitaliy Terziev over 5 years
  
  Yep, I was thinking the same thing, will try it bit later and will leave a note here, thanks.
- Vitaliy Terziev over 5 years
  
  @GunnarHjalmarsson, ineed, it is working after restart. "password you entered was incorrect" was my first clue.. ;d, you can post it as answer so I can close this one or I'll do it tomorrow.
- Gunnar Hjalmarsson over 5 years
  
  Great. Please post the answer yourself. Then, after a couple of days, you'll be able to accept it.
- Gunnar Hjalmarsson over 3 years
  
  It's worth mentioning that this is a 18.04 bug which is about to be fixed.
Maxim Imakaev almost 5 years

Sometimes restarting the system is not possible. For me, logging out and logging back in worked just fine.
Maxim Imakaev almost 5 years

Ubuntu 18.04 - didn't work for me. What did work was logging out and logging back in.
Achim Krauß over 4 years

DONT DO THIS, it can break your language configuration like for me, and I need to configure it again using UI
funerr over 4 years

This was enough for me: gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options
Bojan Komazec about 4 years

This worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04.
Marc almost 4 years

Using Linux for a while now. Wow, I learned again new things: alt + F2 plus the "r" command to reload, plus it fixed the keyboard issue. Grazie.