Comment 2 for bug 1083489

I can narrow this down more actually - it doesn't happen for everything, seemingly only on some windows.

I can reproduce it with new windows with text areas where nothing has been entered - so opening a compose window in thunderbird, or a blank page in gedit, then switching keyboard layout using the keyboard combination, will trigger the bug.

In other words it seems as if the keyboard switcher gets confounded by new windows, and instead of switching keyboard layout for just that window, it does it overall.

Also, the keyboard layout indicator fails to update - which makes me think this bug is related to, if not a double of, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/948763