Wrong keyboard layout after first run of the TrueOS Desktop with a UK preference

[grahamperrin]

Ergo Vista 621 notebook with a UK layout for its keyboard.

Prefer English (UK) when installing the OS, and on first run of the OS.

Expected

A UK keyboard layout.

Actual result

I can't tell the layout (what's required is probably missing from SysAdm) but keying Shift-2 produces @

[pkgdemon]

Ken,
can you please look into a fix for this since you claimed this functionality should work without ibus?

[grahamperrin]

I might have omitted a key point: there's a less prominent button (not as prominent as the menu) for setting something UK related, but I would expect the change to be made automatically when I make a selection in the menu.

[grahamperrin]

Additional details

In the 'TrueOS' dialogue I select what's required, then click Apply, then click 'Close'.

Without proceeding further, if I again click the key/flag icon then the TrueOS dialogue shows –

English 'US' - (us)

– that's not what I selected.

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More broadly

It may be essential to have no mistakes or misunderstandings around this stage of (first run) setup.

If the end user is not aware that something other than their preferred layout is in use, then there's a risk of their preferred pass phrase, presented on screen as bullets during setup, being misinterpreted by the OS. If that happens then post-setup, eventually (when the preferred layout is truly in use by the OS) the user might find the OS rejecting an entered phrase.