Ubuntu
kvkbd package

Virtual keyboard (kvkbd) doesn't show the current keyboard mapping

Bug #301696 reported by Aldo "xoen" Giambelluca on 2008-11-24

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Kvkbd	Confirmed	Medium	Guillaume Martres
	kvkbd (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Guillaume Martres

Bug Description

Binary package hint: kvkbd

I'm using Kubuntu 8.10 @ 64 bit, KDE 4.1.3.

Steps to reproduce :
1) Go to system settings
2) go to language and contry
3) Keyboard mapping
4) Choose USA mapping
5) Change variant to "Dvorak international"
6) "should" appear a flag in the systray
7) Open kvkbd
8) Click on the flag and change mapping to USA Dvorak international
9) Click on the kvkbd icon in the systray to show the virtual keyboard

What appens :
The keyboard doesn't show the current mapping

What should appens :
The virtual keyboard should show the current keyboard mapping.

PS: Sorry for the bad english.

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Aldo "xoen" Giambelluca (xoen) wrote on 2008-11-24:

kvkbd - it doesn't show the current keyboard layout.png Edit (47.7 KiB, image/png)

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Amornthip (amornthip) wrote on 2008-11-25:

Hello,

i have the same problem.
Language on my system is german.
Additional language added "thai".

Try to use kvkbd for thai shows only german keyboard mapping.

Any help would be very nice,

Greeting

Tip

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Guillaume Martres (smarter) wrote on 2008-12-04:

Yes, this is a known problem(see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174110 ), and not an easily solvable one unfortunately.
You can use the same workaround I explained in the kde bug report, change the layout using the setxkbmap command, like for german keyboard:
setxkbmap de

For thai, replaces "de" with "th", etc using the layout name. It's shown by the systemsettings keyboard layout module next to the country name.