keyboard layouts - changes are not retained

[nyuwa]

Good evening from Japan
Finally I got another computer to experiment with and managed to
install TuxTrans (full version).

Here too, as with all flavors of linux I tried so far, there are MANY
things I do not understand.

The first question here:
I am in Japan and use Japanese computer/keyboard/language.
Although I specified during the installation to use "Japanese"
keyboard, the default seems to be "USA".
After adding German and Japanese to the little icon at the top margin
of screen, there is an indicator.
Right click -> Groups: shows "Germany, Japan, USA".

I REMOVED the keyboard layout "USA" SEVERAL TIMES already, but each
time I restart the computer the layout is back.
After I removed "USA" there are only two KBs and I can switch between
them, but they tend to switch on their own while I am using the
keyboard for some operations.
I noticed, that although I deliberately switched the KB to "Japan", it
switches back to "German", in particular, when I use the key
combination "Ctrl + Q".

Now, what is this all about. I have never seen any such behavior
before and I definitely do not want it. This is very annoying.

Is there a way to fix this?

Thank you in advance.

[peter.s...@uibk.ac.at]

Hi,

yes, I also ran into this strange behavior with tuxtrans with some
computers, not all.
So I confirm this seems to be a bug. If this is not the case with the
original ubuntu, it must be because of some quirk in the keyboard
management or installation of keyboard management features in
tuxtrans. So far I don't know what to do about this, maybe somebody
else knows?

best

Peter

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

Good evening from Japan
Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately, I am not a computer wizard and am almost completely helpless, when it comes to such technical things. I tried the few things I could think of, posted a question on the Ubuntu mailing list (no response) etc., but was not yet able to resolve the issue.
So, for the time being I gave up on Tuxtrans and installed on my second "experimental machine" Ubuntu 10.10.
Now I have two (rather old) computers running Linux: one with 10.04, one with 10.10.
Neither of these versions produces any keyboard related problems on my computers.

I think, this leave only to hope, that some computer wizard knows what to do.