Keyboard layout missing after upgrade to 22.04

user2740

10/18/23, 8:44 PM

On 20.04 I used to have 3 keyboard layouts: German, German(neo, QWERTZ) and Japanese (Mozc). After upgrading to 22.04 I still have both German options in the login screen (I still don't have Japanese, but I still don't need it). But after login German(neo, QWERTZ) vanishes and I can only choose between German and Japanese (Mozc).

In 22.04 neo and neo+QWERTZ come built-in. Before I think I had build my own neo+QWERTZ layout but the timestamps in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules are all either 2021-06-08 22:20:40 or 2021-08-18 11:26:23 which suggests that the upgrade did the last write on them. (I could not have manually edited two files in the same second).

When I try to add German(neo, QWERTZ) under Activities -> Settings -> Keyboard -> Input Sources I cannot select anything with neo. Even with Other there are only German (<country>) and <other language> (German). When I try to enable Show Extended Input Sources in Gnome Tweaks -> Keyboard & Mouse it is already shown as enabled (disable, enable does not work).

How can I get my two German keyboard layouts back?

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources gives [('xkb', 'de'), ('ibus', 'mozc-jp')]

Update
Gunnar's: Edit II, solved it. German (Germany) is not a layout but indeed a folder that needs to be clicked

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson

4/14/24, 9:54 PM

German (Neo, QWERTZ) is considered to be an "exotic" layout. To access it on Ubuntu with GNOME:

Install the gnome-tweaks package, unless it's already installed
Open Tweaks and select Keyboard & Mouse
Enable Show Extended Input Sources
Log out and log in again

Now you can add German (Neo, QWERTZ) in Settings -> Keyboard.

Edit:

Oops.. I now see that you already tried that. But that is still how to do it, and if it doesn't work there is some problem with your configuration.

Edit II:

Or possibly it's a very common misunderstanding with respect to the GNOME UI for adding input sources: Assuming that you have the German locale generated, you should not look for additional German layouts in "Other". Instead click "German", which will open a sub menu with multiple German layout variants.

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