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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