gnome keyboard indicator "Alt left+Alt right" shortcut does not work anymore.

Thanks for your bug report. Does this work with a new user?

does not work for a new user.

still does not work in feisty final. neither for my old nor for any new user.

What should "Alt left+Alt right" do? What keyboard layout do you use?

In Dapper "Alt left+Alt right" did switch through the keyboard layouts configured in the keyboard indicator applet. I am using "us" and "de".

Another thing happening, which I should open a separate bug for, is that when I would login using Xnest, which results in having a different keyboard layout, the keyboard indicator looses all layouts I have added. The layouts/languages seem to be stored like 105keys-us and 105keys-de. So if Xnest tells the applet there is a 104key keyboard now, it does not present the language layouts anymore.

This should work differently, since I want a german keymap and an us-english one no matter how many keys my keyboard has. If I would attach a USB keyboard, I would like it to be accessible with these two layouts as well.

As for me, the shortcut works fine, using german, polish, and russian layout on up-to-date feisty, at least for a normal desktop-session (not Xnest one).

As it seems the shourtcut Alt+Alt works but only if the right Alt key is pressed first, which usually is not what I do. I guess this has to do with the fact that lv3:ralt_switch makes the right Alt key the Level 3 modifier key. I am not sure but I thought that any Alt+Alt combination worked in dapper.

Anyhow, at least I found out that there is actually one combination that works.

Strange, for me it makes no difference which key is pressed first - it simply works. Did you change some keyboard-shortcuts?

I had a similar problem: I could switch from US to ES keyboard, but not the other way around with Alt+Alt. The reason is that there is no right Alt key in the Spanish keyboard! Now I use the right control key (that I never use) for these tasks... which exists on both layouts.

This worked again in gutsy. But only if I would press the left Alt button first. The other way round did not work.

In hardy this does not work at all again!

I see this bug is marked "incomplete". Please tell me which additional information I need to provide.

I can confirm everything worked as expected in Gutsy, but it does not in Hardy.

This is on the same machine. After upgrading to Hardy, the alt+alt shortcut does not change keyboard layout.

Other shortcuts work fine, for example shift+shift, or right ctrl only (of course after changing to this shortcut in the keyboard layout preferences).

I have three keyboard layouts: USA, USA International (with dead keys), and Arabic.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Intrepid Ibex. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

Hi elias1884,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISOs are available from cdimage.ubuntu.com)

If it remains an issue, could you also attach a new /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Thanks in advance.

The output of lspci -vvnn would also be worth having.

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

there are many bugs about a not working right alt key. and there are many bugs about a not working shortcut to change keyboard layout (left alt + right alt). as far as i can tell fixing the right alt key would also fix the keyboard layout problem.

could someone with more knowledge than me in the topic please look at these bugs and generously mark as duplicate.

in no particular order:

bug #76901 (marked as fixed, but obviously there is a regression)
bug #363363
bug #251443
bug #462249
bug #96434
bug #226676
bug #382473
bug #438520

Dear all,

please excuse and direct me if I am writing in wrong place.

I want to report a bug connected to changing keyboard layouts by keyboard shortcuts.
When I choosen ALT+SHIFT of left ALT+ left SHIFT, it works only a couple of times, after that I hane to change layout by mouse. I finded, that gnome-keyboard-properties is responsible for it, but I did not manage with reporting the bug with "ubuntu-bug gnome-keyboard-properties" . The answer was that the package gnome-keyboard-properties does hot exist. I did not manage to find the package number.

$ which gnome-keyboard-properties
/usr/bin/gnome-keyboard-properties

jevgtv: this is probably another bug report. You may get this feature if you have IBus activated in the input methods. See System/Administration/Language support and make sure that for Input Methods the 'none' is selected. Restart your computer and check again. If the problem persists, file a new bug report under 'xorg-server'. If it is fixed, you may file a usability report for product 'ibus'.

Marking this as a duplicate of bug 251443.