The Text Entry dialog shows invalid keyboard shortcuts to change layout

[Lorenzo Villani]

On Ubuntu Trusty:

Clicking the "Text entry settings" on indicator-keyboard opens the "Text Entry" configuration panel. However, this panel shows two keybindings to switch between keyboard layouts which are unusable in their default setting:

- Switch to next source using: Super + Space
- Switch to previous source using: Shift + Super + Space

Changing the combo to any which doesn't include the Super key works-around the problem.

I'm speculating that this happens because Compiz/Unity incercepts the Super key since it is used to manage its shortcuts.

[William Hua (attente)]

Yes, Lorenzo, you're correct. The problem is due to Compiz/Unity fighting with gnome-settings-daemon over passive key grabs, but fixes have been committed but not yet released. This PPA contains those fixes: https://launchpad.net/~attente/+archive/gnome-key-grabber

[Lorenzo Villani (lvillani)]

Hi William,

I have added your PPA, installed these new packages and then restarted my session but Super+Space and Shift+Super+Space do not work yet.

Let me know if/how I can do further tests.

[Lorenzo Villani (lvillani)]

In between I reported the bug I installed Ubuntu GNOME on my "test" partition and did the previous test by installing the 'ubuntu-desktop' metapackage to get Unity back. For some reason it didn't pull unity-settings-daemon which wasn't installed when I ran the test.

I installed it manually and confirm that layout switching with both Super+Space and Super+Shift+Space work properly if I use your PPA.

Sorry for the confusion.