Changing the keyboard layout doesn't stick

Am using latest code-server v4.0.1, but this also happened in v3.12.0.

I am referring to changing the keyboard layout via the button in the bottom-right of the editor:

Changing it from Layout: US to something else doesn’t seem to have any effect… it remains as Layout: US and does so even after re-loading the window. Well, it’s inconsistent because I managed to change it to Hungarian (but then it didn’t change to anything else)… but even after changing to Hungarian, when the window was reloaded it was back to US.

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I tried this out on Codespaces and had similar problems so it appears to be an issue upstream.

What I observed:

• Switching layout worked (visual indicator updated and keyboard shortcuts worked)
• Refreshing switched me back to the default US layout
• Switching layout stopped working (visual indicator does not update and keyboard shortcuts use the wrong keys)
• If I delete keyboard.layout from my settings then switch the layout it works again (until the next refresh).

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/135960

One workaround is to set Keyboard: Dispatch to keycode instead of using layouts.

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From what I can remember I think this has never worked although I remember seeing some changes in VS Code to support it so maybe it is something wrong on our end.