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Tweaktool Keyboard “Additional Layout Options” not working

Asked by Weston Hunter

I am running Ubuntu 20.04.1 with Gnome. I am seeing new behavior which seems to have been introduced within the past couple of weeks. I have a couple custom keyboard settings configured in Tweaktool "Additional Layout Options". These settings work great.

I have a USB keyboard plugged into the machine. If I have the keyboard plugged in when I start my Gnome session, the customized keyboard layout options are correctly applied to the USB keyboard. If I unplug and reconnect the keyboard, the keyboard does will _NOT_ have the customized keyboard settings.

If I restart my Gnome session (using Alt-F2 -> "r"), the customized settings are applied to the keyboard.

I think this behavior is something new. Before, I was able to unplug/reconnect my keyboard and it would apply my customized keyboard settings on reconnect. Is there anything I can do to force the application of the custom keyboard tweaks on USB keyboard reconnect?

Is anyone else able to reproduce this? I don't have any other machines with Ubuntu 20.04.1 to test with.

Thanks!

(This is also cross-posted at askubuntu: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1281162/tweaktool-keyboard-additional-layout-options-not-working)

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said : 		#1

That would be the Default settings of GNOME. It is reverting back to the Default setting when you unplug the keyboard.
When you logout or shutdown their should be a save current session box , check-mark that box. It may help.
Is their a needed reason you have to unplug your keyboard? At least you have the Alt+F2+r Shortcut that works.
This a normal behavior for GNOME to revert to default once interrupted.
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Weston Hunter (westonhunter) said : 		#2

Hi Bernard,

I'm on a laptop, so I unplug/reconnect the USB input devices frequently. Using Ubuntu (across many versions) for years, any keyboard customization I had made in Tweak -> Additional Layout Options were available when the USB keyboard was reconnected. I would expect any customization I make in Tweak -> Additional Layout Options to be "active" at all times. Why wouldn't this be the natural expected behavior? This behavior just started within the past couple of weeks. I don't feel like I should be forced to restart my Gnome session to initialize a configuration which I have expressed should always be available.

The current versions of Gnome on Ubuntu do not have any sort of "save current session" checkbox.

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