If you really read the comments at bug #1762952, you see that the
initially proposed change was limited in scope. However, it proved to
come with various regressions, so it landed in a solution where the
default shortcut for switching keyboard layout was changed in console-
setup from "Alt+Shift" to "No toggling".
But it did address incompatibility issues on Ubuntu/GNOME, so reverting
it to the old behavior would be bad.
Possibly console-setup could be modified again, so the default shortcut
depends on XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP ("No toggling" for GNOME and "Alt+Shift"
for others). That way there wouldn't be a need to involve ubiquity or
other desktops.
@Adam: Do you think that would make sense?
On 2020-08-20 11:10, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> I just tested on Ubuntu GNOME and I can't switch the layout with
> Alt+Shift.
Right. Super+Space is default on GNOME.
> I can switch it with Win+Space, which isn't appropriate for
> Greece.
That's reasonably about personal preferences rather than geographical.
Many users are used to something else but Super+Space, and on GNOME they
can either change it to something else or add some XKB based shortcut
via Tweaks.
> Also, I can't type Greek in neither the console nor in GDM.
Super+Space works for me in GDM. A prerequisite is that
/etc/default/keyboard includes more than one XKB layouts.
As regards the console, is there a use case which would be worth to take
into consideration where there is a need to switch to a non-latin
keyboard layout?
** Also affects: console-setup (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1892014
Title:
18.04.14.7 regression: no alt_shift_toggle in XKBOPTIONS
Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Up to ubuntu-mate-18.04.1.iso, everything was fine. Starting with
18.04.2, XKB_OPTIONS does not contain "alt_shift_toggle" anymore and
we cannot switch the keyboard layout to e.g. Greek using Alt+Shift.
Reading the changelog, I see:
$ ~/source/ubiquity$ git show 786a5325ef
+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)
I'm guessing that ubiquity duplicates some code from console-setup,
and LP: #1762952 caused this regression.
To reproduce:
1) Start ubuntu-mate-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
2) Select Ελληνικά (Greek) and start installing Ubuntu using the default
options
3) Right after the keyboard layout step, run:
$ grep XKBOPTIONS /etc/default/keyboard
XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
4) Verify that you can switch to Greek with Alt+Shift
Starting from ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso (.1=OK, .2=BAD), we
cannot switch to Greek using Alt+Shift anymore:
$ grep XKBOPTIONS /etc/default/keyboard
XKBOPTIONS="grp_led:scroll"
Does ubiquity really expect the users to run `dpkg-reconfigure
console-setup`?
Note that selecting Greek in the syslinux menu produces the correct
XKBOPTIONS, yet ubiquity overwrites them later on with the wrong ones.
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