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I have USA and Spanish (Spain) keyboard layouts defined on my laptop,
with USA being the default. When I plug in my external keyboard I can no
longer choose the Spanish layout either from the keyboard layout
indicator in the panel or via the keyboard shortcut I've defined. If I
bring up the keyboard preferences, the Spanish keyboard is still in the
list. To work around the problem, I either delete it and re-add the
Spanish layout, or restart Gnome (log out and log in).

Sometimes after unplugging and plugging in the keyboard, attempting to
switch layouts will cause the keyboard indicator to display "??" instead
of "USA" or "Esp". Sometimes it simply displays "USA". In either case,
the keyboard responds with the USA layout, meaning not easy access to
the Spanish characters.

I'm running on a Lenovo Thinkpad x300. The original Ubuntu install was
8.04 and I've upgraded (using the upgrade process via Synaptic, not by
reinstalling) to 8.10 and now 9.04. I have an external PS/2 keyboard in
Spanish/Spain physical layout that I plug in to the laptop through a
PS/2 to USB cable. The laptop has a USA physical layout.

I first noticed this with 8.10, but I can't say for sure that it wasn't
a problem in 8.04 as I didn't use the external keyboard very much with
8.04. On 8.10, the problem also happened when I suspended and resumed,
but that seems to be fixed in 9.04. I can suspend and resume and the
Spanish layout is still available. However, if I actually unplug the
external keyboard and plug it back in, I lose the Spanish layout.

This may be the same problem as bug 373297, and might also be related to
bug 274617.

Thanks for any help. I'd be more than happy to provide more information
or test possible solutions. Just let me know.

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Plugging in a keyboard loses the second keyboard layout when using more than one layout
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376592
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