Re: Keyboard layout switching in modern Ubuntus

[Dmitry Shachnev]

On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 01:25:00AM +0300, Nrbrtx wrote:
> > A better mailing list for questions related to GNOME Flashback sessions
> > would be gnome-flashback-l...@gnome.org. But in this case I will help you
> > here too.
>
> GNOME community seems to be unfriendly.

No. At least not on that mailing list.

> > It is possible. I have just tested the Ubuntu 16.04.2 live image and
> > setting the “Switch to next source” to “Alt+Shift L” in
> > unity-control-center works for me.
>
> It works in Unity session, but not in GNOME FlashBack. Shortcut is set, but
> not usable.

Have you set it like in my screenshot?

There should be no differences between Unity and GNOME Flashback sessions
in Ubuntu 16.04: both are using unity-settings-daemon, unity-control-center
and indicator-keyboard.

If there are differences for you, you must be doing something wrong.

In particular, please make sure that gnome-settings-daemon is not running
and “gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-flashback input-sources” is false.

> > From testing the same Ubuntu 16.04.2 live image: if I type “apt-get install
> > gnome-session-flashback”, nothing pulls in gnome-control-center.
>
> I tried from mini.iso. It seems that indicator-bluetooth requires
> unity-control-center.
> I just tried to install gnome-session-flashback on Ubuntu MATE 16.04.
> It has both unity-control-center and gnome-control-center. I'm able to set
> , but it does not work.

As I said: the GNOME Flashback packages do not pull in gnome-control-center
on 16.04. You should be able so safely remove it.

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Re: Keyboard layout switching in modern Ubuntus

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Norbert!

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 12:40:49AM +0300, Nrbrtx wrote:
> Dear Ubuntu developers!
>
> I have just upgraded my machines from 12.04 to 14.04.

You may want to upgrade further to 16.04 or 17.04 (if this is not a typo).

> After upgrades I discovered that there are some issues with keyboard layout
> switching.
> I have two keyboard layouts - English and Russian.
> I prefer to install GNOME FlashBack session into normal Ubuntu (Unity)
> flavor.

A better mailing list for questions related to GNOME Flashback sessions would
be gnome-flashback-l...@gnome.org. But in this case I will help you here too.

> [...]
> My questions are:
> 1. Is it possible to use  as keyboard layout switcher in GNOME
> FlashBack sessions?

It is possible. I have just tested the Ubuntu 16.04.2 live image and setting
the “Switch to next source” to “Alt+Shift L” in unity-control-center works
for me.

> 2. Do you plan to fix  interference?

It should be already fixed. Please test if it occurs in Ubuntu 17.04.

> 3. Why we have both gnome-control-center and unity-control-center on simple
> system with GNOME FlashBack?

You do not need both. On Ubuntu 16.10 and older, the GNOME Flashback session
is using unity-control-center. On Ubuntu 17.04 and newer, it is using
gnome-control-center.

From testing the same Ubuntu 16.04.2 live image: if I type “apt-get install
gnome-session-flashback”, nothing pulls in gnome-control-center.

> 4. What is the future of unity-control-center?

I think it will receive only critical fixes, like Unity itself. Do not expect
any new features there.

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