[kde] [Bug 424423] Keyboard not selected correctly on login

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424423

--- Comment #2 from php4fan at gmail.com ---
I found System Settings => Input Devices => Keyboard => Layouts

and found out there was only one layout, US English.

I added Spanish there, removed English, and now everything works as expected.

I don't know why the only layout in System settings was English. I don't know
whether that setting belongs to KDE or if it is more low-level and system-wide.
If it is the latter, then somehow installing KDE changed it, because I know I
had Spanish as the only one or at least as the selected one before. If it's
KDE-specific, then KDE should have asked me when installing or on the first
login, because it's a very basic setting.

That only explains part of the issue.
Apparently there are two layers: system keyboard layout, and iBus (whatever
that is) with its "input methods" (whatever they are).
Apparently, on startup, even if you have a given input method selected, and
even though it shows up as selected in the ibus indicator, it is not applied.
The system layout is applied instead, until you explicitly change the input
method. That's broken. And if you only have one input method, then it's never
applied and you cannot force it to be applied by explicitly selecting it
because it's already selected.

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