When I installed 16.04, I mistakenly chose the German keyboard layout. My computer is a Japanese computer with Japanese keys, but I regularly use several languages. How can I change the default system layout for all of my languages without reinstalling the OS? I cannot for the life of me find a GUI or CLI way to do this. Many thanks for your help.
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Is it sufficient to change it for your own user? In that case System Settings -> Text Entry should be what you need. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Apr 29 '16 at 15:44
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Gunnar, thanks for your suggestion. I can add and remove text entry methods just fine, but this doesn't seem to solve the problem for me. Even if I add another Japanese text entry method, the keyboard layout doesn't change. E.g., I press the @ key and another character comes out. Also, I would prefer to change the default layout, as my passwords on the login key also depend on symbols that have unique locations on the Japanese keyboard. – Slim Down May 04 '16 at 01:46
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ubibene, thank you for your suggestion. I tried your suggestion and configured my board for Japanese layout, then rebooted, but the problem persists. I.e., the outputs do not match the keys I press. Not sure what the problem is. Could this be a bug? – Slim Down May 04 '16 at 01:54
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@SlimDown: What's the output of `cat /etc/default/keyboard`? – Gunnar Hjalmarsson May 04 '16 at 04:51
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# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE # Consult the keyboard(5) manual page. XKBMODEL="asus_laptop" XKBLAYOUT="jp" XKBVARIANT="OADG109A" XKBOPTIONS="" BACKSPACE="guess" – Slim Down May 04 '16 at 05:47
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@SlimDown: That ought to be applied by the login greeter. Can't tell why it isn't for you. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson May 04 '16 at 06:35
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I'm not able to reproduce the problem you have mentioned in comments, i.e. that enabling a Japanese keyboard layout wouldn't make a difference. I added Japanese, and the resulting keyboard layout looks like this:
Then I opened gedit, switched to "Ja" via the input source indicator, and the expected characters according to the image above appeared when I typed.
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Gunnar, thank you for your kind help and persistence. Having not worked previously, I re-added "Japanese" within All Settings / Text Entry, and this time, it seems to have worked, both for "Japanese" and the "Japanese (Mozc)(iBus)" that I normally use. While I am pleased, I am most puzzled as to why it worked this time and not before. In any case, thank you. – Slim Down May 04 '16 at 05:47
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I have just recently set up another machine and run into the same issue. This time, I opened up IBus preferences in a terminal, ```ibus-setup``` and un-toggled Advanced --> Use system keyboard layout. Again, I'm not sure why, but this seems to have worked. Anyone still having issues after following the method above, try the IBus preferences. – Slim Down Aug 26 '16 at 03:56
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Install "Japanese iBus MOZC" Keyboard:
sudo apt-get install ibus-mozc mozc-server mozc-utils-gui
Re-login (this is important!) and find mozc in System Settings -> Text Entry when you click the + button.
If "your" Japanese is not listed, enter this command in shell
im-config
After that you should have these Japanese keyboard input sources in Text Entry when you click the + button: Japanese (Dvorak), Japanese (Kana), Japanese (Kana 86), Japanese (Macintosh), Japanese (Mozc)(IBus), Japanese (OADG 109A), Japanese (PC-98xx Series)
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PeterN, thank you for your suggestions. I should have mentioned in my question that I regularly use Japanese iBus MOZC, and have already tried un- and reinstalling, with reboots. I also tried your second suggestion in a terminal, but that did not seem to solve the problem. – Slim Down May 04 '16 at 01:54