Hi Gunnar, thank you for the feedback,
> 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.
When launching a console, XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP isn't guaranteed to be
set. E.g. one can just switch to vt2 and login there, or one can run
`sudo -i` which doesn't preserve the XDG_* environment variables. Losing
the ability to type Greek because I used `sudo -i` wouldn't be
appropriate.
> Right. Super+Space is default on GNOME.
Up to now, /etc/default/keyboard allowed for defining a shortcut
GLOBALLY, and the console, the display managers, and all the desktop
environments respected that. Is supporting "a global shortcut" no longer
a Debian/Ubuntu goal?
> That's reasonably about personal preferences rather than geographical.
Well, the official Greek school books teach Alt+Shift for layout
toggling, so I'm not sure it can be called a "personal preference" and
not a geographical one. That said, I wouldn't mind if Linux decided to
globally endorse Win+Space, but AFAIK console doesn't support Win+Space
as an option yet.
> 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?
Normal PC usage is impossible without it. Some examples:
# Change directory to Desktop
cd "Επιφάνεια εργασίας"
# Edit a file
nano Αρχείο.txt
# Set a user's name
usermod -c Άλκης alkisg
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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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