keyboard layout switch not represented in the top icon

[Andrey Gelman]

I switch between 2 keyboard layouts - English and Hebrew.
Pressing Alt-Shift switches the keyboard, but the icon in the top of screen doesn't change.
Switching back doesn't change it also.
Switching again, might change it.
The keyboard layout, as far as I can judge, is Ok. The icon doesn't always follow the keyboard.
Not consistent, but also not rare.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Thu Jun 7 21:42:52 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

At first I thought this might be related to bug 1009995, but probably not.

However if any application needs to bind to "Alt+Shift" globally then it won't work in Unity any more because Unity steals all Alt+* key combinations on the root window. That's global key shortcuts -- it doesn't affect Alt+* in application windows...

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 950160, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.