GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 711001
Switching keyboard layout with Alt+Shift has no effect on input language
Last modified: 2013-10-28 13:50:40 UTC
When I switch keyboard layout with Alt+Shift it doesn't change the input language, but the LED indicator (Scroll Lock in my case) gets turned on and the language icon on the top panel shows that the language is changed too. For example, I see that the icon text is changed from "en" to "ru" but I'm still typing English characters! Selecting the language manually via clicking the same panel icon works okay.
Which exact versions of mutter, gnome-shell and gnome-settings-daemon are you running?
GNOME Shell 3.8.4 mutter is not installed gnome-settings-daemon doesn't want to print its version
Please do the following: 1. run 'xev -event keyboard > xev.txt' 2. with the xev window focused, press Alt+Shift a couple of times 3. close xev and attach the log file here Also, please post the output of 'gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.input-sources'
(In reply to comment #2) > mutter is not installed It is a hard dependency of gnome-shell, so either that's not true, or you are running something else. Also note that you should be able to use your distro's package manager to query versions instead of relying on programs implementing a --version switch (which obviously won't work for libraries anyway)
Created attachment 258296 [details] xev output
Created attachment 258297 [details] gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.input-sources
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #2) > > mutter is not installed > > It is a hard dependency of gnome-shell, so either that's not true, or you are > running something else. > Also note that you should be able to use your distro's package manager to query > versions instead of relying on programs implementing a --version switch (which > obviously won't work for libraries anyway) I just typed 'mutter' and got a message that it's not installed and I should run sudo apt-get install mutter - maybe that's another mutter? So I installed mutter via apt-get and dpkg says it's version 3.8.4-0ubuntu2. Version of gnome-settings-daemon: 3.8.5-0ubuntu11.1
(In reply to comment #7) > Version of gnome-settings-daemon: 3.8.5-0ubuntu11.1 I see[1] that this package has had a few patches added in ubuntu recently and since I can't reproduce here, I suggest you report the issue in ubuntu's bug tracker. [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/3.8.5-0ubuntu11.1
OK, thanks. BTW I found a similar report on Launchpad, in case that may be interesting to someone: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1244158