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Bug 735813 - Can't configure layout switch to Caps / Shift+Caps
Can't configure layout switch to Caps / Shift+Caps
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-tweak-tool
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Tweak Tool maintainer(s)
GNOME Tweak Tool maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-09-01 14:45 UTC by Artiom Neganov
Modified: 2018-01-24 15:11 UTC
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Description Artiom Neganov 2014-09-01 14:45:00 UTC
Fedora 20/Gnome 3.10, fresh install

I couldn't configure layout to be switched as: Caps Lock (first layout) Shift+Caps Lock (last layout).

My settings:
http://screencloud.net/v/qxwJ -  Region & Language
http://screencloud.net/v/ag6i - Input Sources Options

Regarding the latter screenshot - I don't understand where the third line comes from and have no idea where I can't configure it.

Anyway, despite it is there - it doesn't work, i.e. it doesn't switch anything - only Caps lock indicator lights on when caps is pressed.
Comment 1 Artiom Neganov 2014-09-01 14:48:36 UTC
I installed gnome-tweak-tool and this is the screenshot of it's Typing section:
http://screencloud.net/v/ns8t

As I said, the switch does not work. So this is bug.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2014-09-01 14:55:35 UTC
It's in the Keyboard panel, under Shortcuts, "Typing", as the dialogue says:
"You can change these shortcuts in the keyboard settings"
Comment 3 Artiom Neganov 2014-09-01 17:37:40 UTC
Thank you for quick reply.

I'm afraid you are too quick in resolving this issue :) There is no setting for configuring switch which I described in title of the report, then in the first paragraph and lastly in it's last paragraph. I'm talking about modal switch which is listed on the second screenshot: http://screencloud.net/v/ag6i 

And this is how the dialog you mentioned looks like: ttp://screencloud.net/v/siIB  - There are only "next" and "previous" shortcuts.

Please, reopen this issue.
Comment 4 Rui Matos 2014-09-02 08:21:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm afraid you are too quick in resolving this issue :) There is no setting for
> configuring switch which I described in title of the report, then in the first
> paragraph and lastly in it's last paragraph. I'm talking about modal switch
> which is listed on the second screenshot: http://screencloud.net/v/ag6i 

The alternative shortcut (modifiers-only) doesn't provide that option (caps forward, shift+caps backwards) in the UI because it doesn't work with the way GNOME handles layout switching.

If you have set that option using gsettings and/or dconf-editor you can clear it using the same tool.
Comment 5 Artiom Neganov 2014-09-02 09:55:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> The alternative shortcut (modifiers-only) doesn't provide that option (caps
> forward, shift+caps backwards) in the UI because it doesn't work with the way
> GNOME handles layout switching.
> 
> If you have set that option using gsettings and/or dconf-editor you can clear
> it using the same tool.

It is not axtually caps - forward and shift+caps - backward. It is caps - to the *first* layout and shift+caps - to the last. Its always been there in X and all Linux distros I worked with. Do you mean specifically this? Gnome doesn't provide modal layout switch anymore?
Comment 6 Artiom Neganov 2014-09-02 10:02:28 UTC
Btw, Xkb knows this as: 

grp:shift_caps_switch
Caps Lock (to first layout), Shift+Caps Lock (to last layout)
Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2014-09-03 11:04:59 UTC
Right, we're not going to add that to the control center, but it should work in gnome-shell and gnome-tweak-tool.

Reassigning to gnome-tweak-tool to implement the switching (and thus the XKB configuration).
Comment 8 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-24 15:11:38 UTC
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