The problem seems to be some incompatibility between ibus and gnome-flashback. ibus doesn't cause problems in Unity but it does cause this problem in flashback.
A workaround for gnome-flashback would be to conflict with ibus until this is solved. A workaround for users: in/etc/default/im-config, change IM_CONFIG_DEFAULT_MODE=auto to IM_CONFIG_DEFAULT_MODE=none This tells im-config not to load ibus. If one reboots after that, keyboard switching again works (as good as it does in Unity, which still has issues, but they're not specific to flashback). A debugging note. When I'm switching the keyboard layout, if I run: $ dconf watch / when ibus is not running, I see this: /org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/current uint32 1 and the indicator gets updated properly, ...but when ibus is running, I see this: /desktop/ibus/general/engines-orger ['xkb:gr::gre', 'xkb:us::eng'] ...and the indicator is not updated with the newly switched layout. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1481025 Title: Keyboard shortcut for layout switching works in Unity but not in Gnome-Flashback Status in gnome-flashback package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: My keyboard layout is "us,gr", and the new Gnome way to switch between them is by pressing "Super+Space". This works fine in: * Gnome-Flashback (Metacity) 14.04 * Unity 14.04 * Unity 15.10 It doesn't work in: * Gnome-Flashback (Metacity) 15.10 I've tested with the 15.10 default (Unity) installation, selecting Greek language in ubiquity, and adding gnome-flashback after the installation. Just for reference, here are my related gsettings: $ gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.input-sources org.gnome.desktop.input-sources show-all-sources false org.gnome.desktop.input-sources per-window false org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current uint32 1 org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources [('xkb', 'us'), ('xkb', 'gr')] org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options ['grp:alt_shift_toggle', 'grp_led:scroll'] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-flashback/+bug/1481025/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
