[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

@Alkis: I added a comment on the new bug. Let's talk there. This one is
closed.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

Hi, this fix caused a regression in ubiquity: LP: #1892014

Ubiquity doesn't put alt_shift_toggle in XKBOPTIONS anymore, so we
cannot switch to e.g. Greek using Alt+Shift, after going through a
normal installation (or even in the live session).

Are users expected to manually run `dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-
configuration` right after a GUI installation of Ubuntu?

E.g. ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso is affected while 18.04.1
isn't.

Should this issue be resolved in console-setup or in ubiquity?

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[yoosofan]

Thank you https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj for your advice. I report this
on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/290

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[C. Daniel Mojoli B.]

This bug made using emacs and IntelliJ Idea a nuisance. I found a simple 
workaround.
0
=1=

You can verify how ALT and SHIFT are not being detected simultaneously by 
running
$ xkbwatch

Notice how the blinky lights change for ALT and for SHIFT but not for
both at the same time.

=2=

$ setxkbmap -query
rules:  evdev
model:  pc105
layout: us,us,us
variant:,intl,
options:grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll

THIS IS THE PROBLEM

=3=

We will now unset ALT-SHIFT toggle.

$ setxkbmap -option -option grp_led:scroll
^^^
DELIBERATELY EMPTY

The first empty -option erases all options, the second one just carries
over an option we want to keep. Additional -option clauses can preserve
other preexisting options.

I can still change to next/previous input source with whatever is
configured in Settings/Keyboard/Typing

=4=

Do step =2= again and notice how ALT and SHIFT now play together
simultaneously.

I am now a happy Emacs and IntelliJ user. This is a single command
workaround.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package console-setup - 1.178ubuntu2.6

---
console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.6) bionic; urgency=medium

  * keyboard-configuration.config: Only treat missing XKBOPTIONS as
empty.

console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.5) bionic; urgency=medium

  * keyboard-configuration.config: While sourcing config files to re-seed
debconf, load missing variables as empty values of same (LP: #1762952)

console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.4) bionic; urgency=medium

  * keyboard-configuration.{config,templates}: There is no good default for
layout toggling, stop pretending there is.  Console users can set one
with dpkg-reconfigure or editing /etc/defaults/keyboard (LP: #1762952)

 -- Adam Conrad   Wed, 08 Aug 2018 17:32:23 -0600

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hmm.. Another build attempt succeeded without changes.

I went through step 1 -3 in the test case in the bug description, thus
upgraded to version 1.178ubuntu2.6 of keyboard-configuraion, console-
setup and console-setup-linux from bionic-proposed. The result:

$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
XKBLAYOUT="se,us"
BACKSPACE="guess"
XKBVARIANT=","
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBOPTIONS="grp_led:scroll"

So no layout switching option was added behind the scenes.

** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-bionic

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

1.178ubuntu2.6 failed to build. My original patch:

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/370321046/console-setup_lp1762952.debdiff

contains proposed changed to d/control and d/rules which would prevent
those build errors.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package console-setup - 1.178ubuntu8

---
console-setup (1.178ubuntu8) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * keyboard-configuration.config: Only treat missing XKBOPTIONS as
empty.

 -- Adam Conrad   Wed, 08 Aug 2018 17:32:23 -0600

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Stéphane Graber]

Hello Markus, or anyone else affected,

Accepted console-setup into bionic-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-
setup/1.178ubuntu2.6 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Tags removed: verification-failed verification-failed-bionic
** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Stéphane Graber]

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I went through step 1 -3 in the test case in the bug description, thus
upgraded to version 1.178ubuntu2.4 of keyboard-configuraion, console-
setup and console-setup-linux from bionic-proposed. The result:

$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
XKBLAYOUT="se,us"
BACKSPACE="guess"
XKBVARIANT=","
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"

So keyboard-configuration still enforces grp:alt_shift_toggle to be
written to /etc/default/keyboard.

If I change /etc/default/keyboard before the upgrade to only include one
layout - in my case XKBLAYOUT=se - no XKBOPTIONS are added. But that's
the behavior before the proposed change too.

So unfortunately the proposed change seems to not address the issue
reported in this bug.

** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
** Tags added: verification-failed verification-failed-bionic

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
   Status: Fix Released => Confirmed

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Status: Fix Committed => Confirmed

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Chris J Arges]

Hello Adam, or anyone else affected,

Accepted console-setup into bionic-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-
setup/1.178ubuntu2.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed

** Tags removed: verification-done
** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic

** Tags removed: verification-done-bionic

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package console-setup - 1.178ubuntu6

---
console-setup (1.178ubuntu6) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * keyboard-configuration.{config,templates}: There is no good default for
layout toggling, stop pretending there is.  Console users can set one
with dpkg-reconfigure or editing /etc/defaults/keyboard (LP: #1762952)

 -- Adam Conrad   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 05:50:59 -0600

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
   Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Adam Conrad]

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) => Adam Conrad (adconrad)

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

@Adam: Sad to hear that the proposed fix caused yet another regression,
and sorry for the inconvenience it caused.

On 2018-07-25 03:31, Adam Conrad wrote:
> That said, I think the "run it sometimes, but not always" fix was
> probably naive at best.  The only two options that seem to make
> sense for fixing this properly are:
> 
> 1) Make GNOME stop writing things to that file that console-setup
> doesn't understand, or
> 2) Make console-setup understand the things GNOME writes to that
> file.

Basically it's the other way around; console-setup adds XKBOPTIONS to
/etc/default/keyboard, sometimes behind the scenes, but GNOME does not
include GUIs for controlling XKBOPTIONS system wide (only per user). At
the same time, when you use the GNOME GUI to change the keyboard
configuration system wide, it brutally drops any XKBOPTIONS in
/etc/default/keyboard.

I'm going to bring it up with the desktop team, and try to figure out a
better approach to handle this dissonance. Then let's make sure in
advance that whatever we comes up with does not interfere with the
installer.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Adam Conrad]

Re-opening this bug as we had to revert the fix, because it was causing
an installer regression:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1783326

That said, I think the "run it sometimes, but not always" fix was
probably naive at best.  The only two options that seem to make sense
for fixing this properly are:

1) Make GNOME stop writing things to that file that console-setup doesn't 
understand, or
2) Make console-setup understand the things GNOME writes to that file.

The second option is certainly the more appealing of the two, but it's
clearly not going to happen before the point release in two days.

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Status: Fix Released => Confirmed

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
   Status: Fix Released => Confirmed

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package console-setup - 1.178ubuntu2.2

---
console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/console-setup-udeb.postinst: Guard the dpkg call in the postinst,
so it isn't attempted in the debian-installer environment (LP: #1782835)

console-setup (1.178ubuntu2.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/keyboard-configuration.postinst:
- Don't change /etc/default/keyboard at package upgrades on
  desktops, since it may conflict with how desktops deal with
  keyboard configuration (LP: #1762952).

 -- Adam Conrad   Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:22:45 -0600

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Verified the test case again, this time by upgrading from version
1.178ubuntu2 to 1.178ubuntu2.2, which was uploaded to address the
regression reported in bug #1782835.

** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-bionic

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hello Markus, or anyone else affected,

Accepted console-setup into bionic-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-
setup/1.178ubuntu2.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Tags removed: verification-done verification-done-bionic
** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Verified the test case by upgrading to version 1.178ubuntu2.1 of

- console-setup
- console-setup-linux
- keyboard-configuration

from bionic-proposed. Result as expected.

** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-bionic

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hey Gunnar! The build just now succeeded after a re-run (?). Probably
some race-condition with the current package dependencies. Anyway, since
the package is built let's not re-upload for no reason. You can proceed
with testing!

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

The build failed.

[error] cannot read character map directory `/usr/share/i18n/charmaps':
No such file or directory

Looks like those extra changes, which I proposed in the original patch -
and which proved to not be needed in cosmic - make a difference in
bionic. (Yes, Łukasz, as you suggested on IRC it was in the bionic
pocket of my PPA I tested originally.)

The above error should go away if locales is added to Build-Depends-
Indep.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Łukasz Zemczak]

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Status: Confirmed => In Progress

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Andy Whitcroft]

Hello Markus, or anyone else affected,

Accepted console-setup into bionic-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-
setup/1.178ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Łukasz, I changed the bug description and added a test case.
Hopefully that is sufficient to proceed with the bionic upload.

** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ 
+ The keyboard-configuration package provides a tool for configuring the
+ keyboard via /etc/default/keyboard. However, there are desktop GUIs
+ which provide such tools as well, and in the case of gnome-control-
+ center it has another idea of what /etc/default/keyboard should contain.
+ In short: The different tools don't play well together.
+ 
+ The proposed upload does not claim to fix all issues with this
+ incompatibility. But one of the annoyances is that a pure upgrade of the
+ keyboard-configuration package may result in a changed keyboard
+ configuration without the user asking for it. The proposed upload does
+ address that particular issue on desktop systems.
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 
+ 1. On an Ubuntu 18.04 system, make sure that the contents of
+/etc/default/keyboard is 'the g-c-c style', for instance:
+ 
+XKBLAYOUT=se,us
+BACKSPACE=guess
+XKBVARIANT=,
+ 
+ 2. Reboot.
+ 
+ 3. Upgrade to the version of the keyboard-configuration package in
+bionic-proposed.
+ 
+ => Find that /etc/default/keyboard was not changed through the upgrade.
+ 
+ 4. Run the command
+ 
+sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
+ 
+ => Find that you are now offered to change your keyboard configuration.
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ 
+ As a result of this upload, and unlike before, no keyboard configuration
+ will happen behind the scenes on a desktop system due to an upgrade of
+ the keyboard-configuration package. This is the desired change, and I
+ can't think of a case when a user would want the configuration to be
+ changed without having asked for it.
+ 
+ [Original description]
+ 
  Version: Ubuntu 18.04 Final Beta with default Gnome Shell included in
  18.04
  
  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Define two keyboard input methods in Settings -> Region & Language -> 
Input Sources
  2. Open several applications
  3. Observe that application windows can be iterated with Alt + Tab
  4. Once application window iteration was begun with Alt + Tab, try to iterate 
backwards with Alt + Shift + Tab.
  5. Try to change keyboard input method switching hotkeys in Settings -> 
Region & Language -> Input Sources -> Options.
  6. Observe that Keyboard shortcut for "Alternative switch to next source" is 
set to "Alt + Shift" and that keyboard shortcuts can only be changed in 
Settings -> Devices -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts.
  7. Observe that the shortcut for "Alternative switch to next source" is not 
available for configuration in Settings -> Devices -> Keyboard -> Keyboard 
Shortcuts.
  
  Actual state:
  * Performing step 4 does not select the previous app in application switcher 
but instead changes  keyboard input method.
  
  Expected state:
  * The shortcut for "Alternative switch to next source" can be changed and / 
or deactivated in Settings -> Devices -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts.
  
  Notes:
  * The above was working fine in Ubuntu 17.10. I assume "Alternative switch to 
next source" did not exist in that version of Gnome Shell.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

@yoosofan: Several options, including CapsLock, are available to switch
layout. If you want to suggest that to be the default option in Ubuntu,
you'd better approach the GNOME developers:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues

(The discussion seems unrelated to this bug.)

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[yoosofan]

Is there a reason why we cannot use CapsLock for changing layout?
CapsLock is the most simplest key for changing layout when you want to work 
with both hand while writing a mixed text of two language. Actually CapsLock 
does not use to its main function because people barely write with a lot of 
bold words and using shift for occasionally one letter is very common,

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Status: New => Confirmed

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Łukasz Zemczak]

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Status: New => Invalid

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package console-setup - 1.178ubuntu3

---
console-setup (1.178ubuntu3) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * debian/keyboard-configuration.postinst:
- Don't change /etc/default/keyboard at package upgrades on
  desktops, since it may conflict with how desktops deal with
  keyboard configuration (LP: #1762952).

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson   Tue, 15 May 2018 01:12:00
+0200

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
   Status: In Progress => Fix Released

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Once this migrates to cosmic release, I'll SRU it to bionic.

** Also affects: console-setup (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Łukasz Zemczak]

I somehow forgot about this bug! Ok, I think I know now what you're
aiming for. Normally just checking for the existence of $2 would be
sufficient but not if we're expecting the config changes to happen on
package reinstall. I guess it's just a matter of design here - I
obviously was thinking of more that reinstallation/reconfiguration
should follow the same rules as an upgrade, as first install was already
responsible for modification of the /etc/default/keyboard file. But
there's also the approach of reinstall causing a complete 'fresh
install' of the config, which indeed might sound a bit better.

Let's get this sponsored!

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Yet another example:

https://askubuntu.com/q/1048831

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

To make sure that I'm not wandering, I made an own experiment, where I
put some code in postinst which prints the variables. (I uploaded it to
the same PPA.) Please see the result in the attached file.

So, considering that we must distinguish between upgrades and pure
configuration, only testing if $2 exists is not sufficient. I still
think that the code I proposed does the right thing. ;)

** Attachment added: "postinst-variables.txt"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+attachment/5144410/+files/postinst-variables.txt

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Ok. Please note that I never tested a *first* install of keyboard-
configuration (hard to do due to dependencies). Besides upgrade I tested
reinstall and "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration". Especially in
the latter case it's obviously important that all the postinst code does
run.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Łukasz Zemczak]

It shouldn't be like that. I just now did an experiment with a new empty
package and I only saw $2 having the version number for upgrades - on
first install $2 was empty. Anyway, I'll take your changes, tweak them a
little bit and sponsor if they seem to work as expected.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

When studying the variables I put a code snippet in postinst and built
the package; something along these lines:

i=1
for p in $@; do
echo "\$$i = $p"
i=$((i+1))
done

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Only checking for the existence of $2 was the first thing I tried, after
having read about that method somewhere. What I found when testing was
that $2 always exists when executing postinst in keyboard-configuration.
In case of an upgrade it's the previous package version, and otherwise
it's the current package version.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Indeed, this is postinst so the value is "configure" for all successful
upgrades. What could be done is actually only checking if $2 exists or
not, since if I remember correctly we only have postinst configure
called with a version number in the case of upgrades or downgrades -
which I suppose don't matter as in case of downgrading to an older
version that we expect modify /etc/default/keyboard then anyway the
destination version's postinst is executed. And I suppose the same thing
happens for packages that are in the config-installed state, but that
shouldn't be a problem for us (since it means postinst ran at least once
anyway).

Probably needs checking.

Could you check if only doing a test for the existence of $2 would
suffice? This could probably be added to the existing conditional and
make the maintscript look better.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Thanks for looking, Łukasz.

Right, it didn't build in PPA for me without those. As regards
'locales', according to the build log it looked for and failed to find
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps. As regards the extra install directory in
d/rules, it's obviously needed if the conditions for running the
subsequent commands are satisfied. Can't explain why it differs from the
archive uploads. I just run "debuild -S" and dput'ed (not from a clean
chroot, though).

I think that $1 is always "configure" at the execution of postinst.
Please note that the original code checks for precisely that. I
struggled a bit to find a way to check whether we are upgrading, and the
proposed way proved to work when I tested. But I'm not a Debian
packaging wizard, and would be just as happy if there is a simpler way
to check for it.

Actually, the fact that keyboard-configuration and g-c-c both write to
/etc/default/keyboard, while they have different ideas of what it should
contain, appears to be a bit odd. My proposal only addresses the most
obvious issue as reported in this bug, i.e. it prevents the keyboard
configuration from being changed without the user having asked for it.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Thanks for your patch Gunnar! For now I only had a quick look the
changes, was wondering why the debian/control and debian/rules changes
were needed for the PPA upload. It didn't build without those? I would
expect it to not really differ from what would happen in the archive.

Also, from the glimpse I had I saw you were doing `dpkg --compare-
versions "$2" lt-nl "$PKGVERSION"` in the postinst - was is the reason
for that? I might be missing context, but isn't it enough to just check
for "$1" = "upgrade" to see if we're upgrading?

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2018-05-13 04:47, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Those XKB options are probably set by the
> keyboard-configuration.config script in the keyboard-configuration
> package. So maybe we need to figure out a proper way to make that
> script keep its hands off /etc/default/keyboard when a desktop is
> upgraded.

The attached debdiff is an attempt at that. When the keyboard-
configuration package is upgraded, the main code in the postinst script
is not run. When installing, including reinstalling the package, it
works as usual, and also when running "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-
configuration".

I uploaded the patch to this PPA (bionic):

https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/console-setup

(The proposed changes to d/control and d/rules proved to be needed for
the PPA upload.)

** Patch added: "console-setup_lp1762952.debdiff"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+attachment/5139733/+files/console-setup_lp1762952.debdiff

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => In Progress

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

** Package changed: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) => console-setup
(Ubuntu)

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Those XKB options are probably set by the keyboard-configuration.config
script in the keyboard-configuration package. So maybe we need to figure
out a proper way to make that script keep its hands off
/etc/default/keyboard when a desktop is upgraded.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Another example of reported confusion due to this issue:

https://askubuntu.com/q/1035383

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I took the following steps:

* Installed Ubuntu 17.10.1
* Added an extra keyboard layout
* Updated the packages
* Rebooted

No additional layout switch shortcut so far.

Then I run "update-manager -d", and when it was installing the new and
upgraded packages, a window for keybord configuration popped up and I
was prompted to select method for switching between "setting for
national and latin" (see attached image). Alt+Shift was pre-selected. I
found no way to skip that setting, and clicked the "Forward" button.
Result:

$ cat /etc/default/keyboard
XKBLAYOUT="se,us"
XKBVARIANT=","
BACKSPACE="guess"
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"

So there it is. And at first login those XKBOPTIONS values were imported
by dconf (as expected).

I still can't tell which package is the culprit. Changed to ubuntu-
release-upgrader for now, since it's probably closer to the truth than
gnome-shell.

In any case the upgrade behavior in this respect needs to be
reconsidered, at least for desktop upgrades. No program should make
assumptions and gratuitously set XKBOPTIONS in /etc/default/keyboard,
especially since g-c-c does not offer a way to modify it later. (Is
there a reason for the upgrader to mess with keyboard configuration at
all?)

** Attachment added: "keyboard-config-prompt.png"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1762952/+attachment/5127164/+files/keyboard-config-prompt.png

** Package changed: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) => ubuntu-release-upgrader
(Ubuntu)

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

True. That's what the discussion I linked to in comment #6 is about, and
there is a xorg-server patch in a PPA to address the issue. (Haven't
tested it.)

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Carl-Erik Kopseng]

By the way, the real, underlying problem is of course that overlapping
shortcuts should be possible (like in Mac and Windows), which is caused
by this XKB bug reported 14 years ago (and still active):
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865

It is basically about activating shortcuts on keypress vs key release.

** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #865
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Thanks for sharing that, Carl-Erik.

On 2018-04-24 21:25, Carl-Erik Kopseng wrote:
> This seems to point to this being some kind of upgrade issue.

It does, indeed. The question is which package sets it.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Carl-Erik Kopseng]

Just wanted to chime in on the upgrade path problem. I also upgraded
from Ubuntu 17.10 and I also never set this shortcut anywhere. I have
always used Super+Space and I have never used the Gnome Tweaks tool
before. Using it to disable the shortcut fixed all the issues and the
shortcuts using Shift - regardless of program - now work.

This seems to point to this being some kind of upgrade issue.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

The Ask Ubuntu question  reports a
similar thing, i.e. that Alt+Shift was set during an update of 17.10
without the OP had asked for it.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

@Jeremy: Since you maintain Tweaks, does it possibly ring a bell?

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762952

Title:
  Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set
  by default

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1762952/+subscriptions

-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs