Xorg layout switching shortcut doesn't update indicator

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

When I press the classic Xorg shortcut of "Alt+Shift" to switch the keyboard layout from English to Greek, the layout changes but the indicator is still showing "En".

If I use the new indicator-keyboard shortcut of "Win+Space", then everything is fine.

So it appears that indicator-keyboard doesn't detect layout changes caused by the Xorg layout switching shortcuts.

I'm including some information:

$ lsb_release -sc
trusty

$ dpkg-query -W indicator-keyboard
indicator-keyboard 0.0.0+14.04.20131125-0ubuntu1

$ egrep -v '^#|^$' /etc/default/keyboard
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us,gr"
XKBVARIANT=","
XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"

$ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete+ledscroll(group_lock)" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+gr:2+inet(evdev)+group(alt_shift_toggle)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
};

$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
gnome-fallback

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

As Dmitry mentioned in bug 1241284, the layout change is monitored by some *daemon. It used to be monitored by gnome-settings-daemon, and now it's monitored by unity*? Dunno I'm not using unity, but I've put gnome-settings-daemon in the Affects list.

Was the code that we're looking for in ./debian/patches/61_revert_libgnomekbd_drop from gnome-settings-daemon-3.8.6.1 in Ubuntu 12.04, where this bug didn't exist yet?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andras Deak (adeak)]

I'm seeing the same behaviour in a freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04.1 with Wayland, where alt+shift layout switching was enabled with gnome-tweaks. The layout itself switches on alt+shift but the layout indicator is stuck showing the original layout. Switching with the default super+space keybinding updates the layout indicator as well as the layout. So I'm thinking this might be a broader issue, which also includes e.g. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1779327.