Caps lock key doesn't switch layout

[eOrange]

On 16.04.1 the capslock key stopped working as layout switcher in ubuntu gnome flashback, though it works fine in unity.

Not sure what else information to provide, so attached is a screenshot of the current shorcuts.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Hi,

- Do you have unity-settings-daemon running?
- What is the value of "gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-flashback input sources"?

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

Just extra reason why I don't like that we use GNOME-Flashback:Unity. We get different bugs that might be Ubuntu only. So if user has not modified GNOME Flashback session than most likely answers are - yes and false.

P.S. It is `input-sources` not `input sources`:
gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-flashback input-sources

[eOrange (s-s-naumov)]

thanks for your reply, was away from my computer, so didn't have a chance to reply earlier.

- Do you have unity-settings-daemon running?

yes, it's running.

stepan@amigozz:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.gnome-flashback input-sources
false
stepan@amigozz:~$ ps aux | grep "unity-settings-daemon"
stepan 3993 0.0 0.1 577448 21800 ? Sl 19:09 0:00 /usr/lib/unity-settings-daemon/unity-fallback-mount-helper
stepan 18728 0.5 0.1 1004156 31704 ? Ssl 19:13 0:00 /usr/lib/unity-settings-daemon/unity-settings-daemon
stepan 18764 0.0 0.0 21292 940 pts/2 S+ 19:14 0:00 grep --color=auto unity-settings-daemon

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Then it is a known bug in unity-settings-daemon. As a workaround, try to run this command and log out / log in:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-input-source "['Caps_Lock']"

(You will need to revert this change when we switch back to gnome-settings-daemon, most probably in 17.04.)

[eOrange (s-s-naumov)]

Dmitry, no luck, unfortunately. CapsLock now is shown as a button for keyboard layout switching, but the layout is not changing when I press it.

[eOrange (s-s-naumov)]

after some more testing and installed updates I confirm that suggested workaround works, thank you.