Virtual keyboard at logon is gb in stead of be layout

Dear,

I'm new to Zorin OS.

During installation I selected Belgian as keyboard layout. When I activate the screen keyboard from the universal access it only shows a querty layout.

What do I have to change to also have it available with the Azerty BE(NL) layout ? At this moment it's installed on a laptop but I would also like to install it on a tablet. Then I need an Azerty BE(NL) layout of the keyboard

Thanking you in advance for your help.

Kind regards,

Tim.

Hi and Welcome,

I noticed from your screenshot that your locale is set to English United Kingdom - You need to click on the button at the bottom that states "Manage installed Languages" - there should be a way to add/remove the English UK for the Belgian one and hopefully that will sort you out.

Please keep us updated.

Thanks for your reply.

The local setting doesn't change the keyboard layout. I put it in English because when it is in Dutch I can't select anymore the keyboard layout Belgian. When it is in English I can.

Just because of your reply below I put the local back to Dutch Belgian.

The result is unfortunately still a qwerty keyboard.

A few other settings :
Command localcetl gives :
tim@SonyVaio-TH:~$ localectl
System Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=nl_BE:nl:en
VC Keymap: be-latin1
X11 Layout: be,gb
X11 Variant: ,

Command Setxkbmap -query

tim@SonyVaio-TH:~$ setxkbmap -query
rules: evdev
model: pc105
layout: be

As you can see everything is on be. In the printscreen the keyboard is still in query.

Another thing is that the virtual keyboard is not appearing in every application where you can type. How can I change that ? Or is there another virtual keyboard that can be used during logon and in other programs that resolves the above issues ?

Thanking you again for your help.

Regards.

In terminal can you do a gconf edit with:

Code:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources show-all-sources true

Then

Code:

sudo locale-gen fr_BE.UTF-8

Then please try adding an additional keyboard layout?

I think I read that this is an Ubuntu Bug ( I saw a bug report) but I need to re-find that bug report.

Activating the NL_BE layout under the dutch interface I have found. I had to select as keyboard Belgian (French) and then I could select the Belgian layout so that is fine.

The main issue now is still that the virtual keyboard is in qwerty even when I select the Belgian layout on it via the flag button.

timhuy wrote:Activating the NL_BE layout under the dutch interface I have found. I had to select as keyboard Belgian (French) and then I could select the Belgian layout so that is fine.

The main issue now is still that the virtual keyboard is in qwerty even when I select the Belgian layout on it via the flag button.

Zorin uses Onboard keyboard.
I would think that a "gsettings set org.onboard layout ---" command would do it, but I am not using Gnome Desktop to check the actual path and command.
Onboard is supposed to follow what you just set, though- so I am not sure why it is failing to do so.
EDIT: You might enter into terminal

Code:

onboard-settings

and opent he settings editor for Onboard Keyboard and explore a bit.
Under "layouts" I saw a button for "open layouts folder."
I never use Onboard (or ay on-screen keyboard) so I am unfamiliar with much of it.

Searching the net, I found this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/1078629

The alpha 1 release of Onboard 0.99.0 is available in our Onboard Releases PPA for precise and quantal:
https://launchpad.net/~onboard/+archive/stable

You also have to activate the PPA for the Virtkey Releases, as the alpha 1 release of Onboard 0.99.0 needs an updated virtkey.
https://launchpad.net/~onboard/+archive/virtkey-stable

I also found similar threads here
https://superuser.com/questions/194882/ ... -on-ubuntu
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=666853

Onboard is not installed for the moment. I already tried it but I don't find a way to use the Onboard keyboard at the login screen.

I checked the settings for Onboard via the GUI and didn't really find something that at first sight could make it available at the login screen. Any ideas ?

The Onboard virtual keyboard shows indeed up in Azerty layout. Now only make it available at the login screen.

Thanks again for al your help.

I had not explored Zorin 15's onboard. So I was unaware of a bug in Ubuntu 18.04's version. Does it affect Zorin 15? I do not know...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1760399
This link has a suggested solution and how to enable at start up/login:
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/201 ... ntu-18-04/

Hi, See if enabling Accessibility options enables the onscreen keyboard - ordinarily that is what an on-screen keyboard is used for.