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[LUG] Mint keyboard input

 

The dreaded 12.04 LTS > 14.04 LTS upgrade cycle has already begun and
amidst the many, many problems I've run into there's only one that is
really making me pull my hair out - the annoying thing is it's probably
a really simple one, and not something that requires a ton of terminal
voodoo (which is probably why I'm stumped). I know tons of you here are
using Mint or something else + Cinnamon so I'm asking before I get
violent in the root shell and end up breaking everything.

Ubuntu 14.04 64bit with Cinnamon 2.2.3

Using the ibus tray indicator for keyboard input type only shows English
(US). I've clicked on it repeatedly, gone into keyboard, language and
input settings entries respectively in the horrid mess that is
Cinnamon's excuse for system settings (why are there so many overlapping
and confusing choices?) and manually added English (UK) several times,
even going so far as to entirely delete English (US) completely. It
completely ignores me, even after logout or reboot and stubbornly
refuses to change the keymap, leaving me with US layout. I've checked
locale, xorg.conf and all the lower level stuff I'm familiar with and
everything is correctly set: the fault is definitely Cinnamon. Googling
just yields a bunch of useless crap on this (although it definitely
seems to be a known issue).

So, Cinnamon with a UK keyboard input please.

Anyone?

Regards

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