Today I did clean install of Ubuntu 14.04.
During install I selected Russian keyboard layout, layouts were switched in
installer by Alt+Shift,
on system boot layout switching was quietly set to Super+Space and
Shift+Super+Space (this combinations do not work in any session). Then I set
Alt+Shift in Unity session - it worked, but if I start GNOME FlashBack session
(with Metacity) indicator-keyboard do not react to Alt+Shift but Scroll Lock
correctly reports selected layout.
I understand that Scroll Lock is hardcoded in /etc/default/keyboard {
}
but why all these options do not work together, why they are not consistent?
Sometimes I use Unity, sometimes I use GNOME and I expect that settings are
system-wide, but they do not.
Guys these news are bad news.
I'm ready to help Ubuntu community to win in the battle at Keyboard Layout
Switching as tried to do before (during elimination of #1218322)
** Tags added: keyboard-layout-switching-hotkeys
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1270574
Title:
keyboard layout settings must be consistent between gnome-control-
center keyboard, indicator-keyboard and gnome-tweak-tool and
/etc/default/keyboard
Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
Confirmed
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “gnome-tweak-tool” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “indicator-keyboard” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Dear Ubuntu developers.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will be released very soon. It seems that it will be
based on GNOME 3.8 or 3.10 (you know exact version).
It seems that because of modern GNOME Ubuntu users will have very
reduced set of keyboard layout options.
Previous Ubuntu LTS version (12.04) was based on GNOME 3.4 and have
very wide spectrum of keyboard layout options. But in newer GNOME
versions, on which for example, Ubuntu 13.10 is based, this options
are very limited.
Many options are moved from gnome-control-center keyboard to gnome-
tweak-tool (see bug 1245064).
I have suggested already to include gnome-tweak-tool in default Ubuntu
14.04 installation (see bug 1270572).
But for now it seems that settings between gnome-tweak-tool,
gnome-control-center and indicator-keyboard are not consistent.
For example, if I set
"Use keyboard LED to show alternative layout" to "Scroll Lock"
on Typing section of gnome-tweak-tool the Scroll Lock does not indicate
alternative keyboard layout as expected (it is a bug).
So please, keep settings between gnome-tweak-tool, gnome-control-
center and indicator-keyboard consistent.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: indicator-keyboard 0.0.0+14.04.20131125-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-4.19-generic 3.13.0-rc8
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-4-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Jan 19 16:55:42 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-20 (90 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016.1)
SourcePackage: indicator-keyboard
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-11-19 (61 days ago)
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