One follow up here, the segfault mentioned in the discussion was probably bug #1933022 which happens when the show-all-sources gsettings configuration is set and is fixed upstream now
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-desktop3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1925792 Title: XKB layout variants not shown in the menu of respective language but under Others Status in gnome-control-center: Unknown Status in gnome-desktop: Unknown Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in gnome-desktop3 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gnome-desktop3 source package in Hirsute: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] The GUI in gnome-control-center for adding input sources is broken. The XKB layout variants should be visible in the menu of respective language, but instead they are all shown under "Others". The issue has a potential to cause confusion for a lot of users. [Test Plan] 1. Open Settings -> Region & Language and press the + button to open the window for adding input sources. 2. Click "English (United States)". -> Find far fewer options than expected 3. Install the gnome-desktop3 binaries from hirsute-proposed and relogin (or possibly reboot). 4. Repeat 1. and 2. -> Find the expected input source options [Where problems could occur] The fix is a cherry picked oneliner which was committed upstream on February 16 in order to address this issue. Very hard to see how it would affect anything else adversely. [Original description] Ubuntu 21-04 installed from scratch (on dual-boot) a few days before stable release. To be able to switch to a language that requires a keyboard different than my own, I used the GUI's "language and region" settings > "manage installed languages" > install/remove languages. I found "Russian" and it was added. Next i pressed the + sign. Selecting "Russian (Russian Federation)" yielded 2 keyboards: "Russian", "Russian (Polyglot and Reactionary)". Neither keyboard was "phonetic". The phonetic keyboard has been with the standard Ubuntu installs for at least ten years. According to Gunnar Hjalmarsson "Ubuntu 21.04 is shipped with the same version of the xkb-data package as in 20.04 and 20.10, so nothing has changed. And multiple variants are available, including the one named Russian (phonetic)." So this should be fairly easy to fix, no? I find that the language settings are a little too complicated for me to tamper with on the terminal, but I am including the information I was able to collect: ~$ locale -a C C.UTF-8 en_AG en_AG.utf8 ... nb_NO.utf8 POSIX ru_RU.utf8 ru_UA.utf8 $ setxkbmap -print -verbose Trying to build keymap using the following components: keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty) types: complete compat: complete symbols: pc+us+inet(evdev) geometry: pc(pc105) xkb_keymap { xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" }; xkb_types { include "complete" }; xkb_compat { include "complete" }; xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)" }; xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" }; }; ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.38.5-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-16.17-generic 5.11.12 Uname: Linux 5.11.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Apr 23 13:51:25 2021 InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-04-19 (3 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Beta amd64 (20210331.1) SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/1925792/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
