Comment 44 for bug 885730

So, seb128 asked me a week ago to take a look at this and I've now reached it on my TODO list.

I'm new to this issue and, since so many people seem interested in this ticket, it made me wonder if someone could help walk me through this issue: The steps in comment #4 look like a good starting point, but step three says "ensure that the layout is us" -- how is that done, exactly? And how would I manually set an arbitrary window's (not just a terminal's) keyboard layout?

In Gnome Control Center > > Keyboard Layout, it appears whatever language I move to the top of the list becomes the active layout. This appears to be applied on a global basis, rather than a per-window one. (It's also not reflected in Ubuntu's keyboard indicator ;) Is this accurate?