If you really read the comments at bug #1762952, you see that the
initially proposed change was limited in scope. However, it proved to
come with various regressions, so it landed in a solution where the
default shortcut for switching keyboard layout was changed in console-
setup from "Alt+Shift" to "No toggling".
But it did address incompatibility issues on Ubuntu/GNOME, so reverting
it to the old behavior would be bad.
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.
@Adam: Do you think that would make sense?
On 2020-08-20 11:10, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> I just tested on Ubuntu GNOME and I can't switch the layout with
> Alt+Shift.
Right. Super+Space is default on GNOME.
> I can switch it with Win+Space, which isn't appropriate for
> Greece.
That's reasonably about personal preferences rather than geographical.
Many users are used to something else but Super+Space, and on GNOME they
can either change it to something else or add some XKB based shortcut
via Tweaks.
> Also, I can't type Greek in neither the console nor in GDM.
Super+Space works for me in GDM. A prerequisite is that
/etc/default/keyboard includes more than one XKB layouts.
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?
** Also affects: console-setup (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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