Input does not work for half a second while switching keyboard language

Bug #1799840 reported by Victor Porton
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1370953: layout switch is delayed. Edit Remove
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

After switching keyboard language by pressing Meta+Space, keyboard input stops to work for a time interval like 0.5 sec.

That is when I press Meta+Space and directly after then type some letters, the input does not work like half of a second.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.30.1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-10.11-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Oct 25 02:29:32 2018
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-23 (123 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_IL
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-20 (4 days ago)

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Victor Porton (porton) wrote :
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Does input work reliably after the 0.5 sec or so?

tags: added: performance
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Victor Porton (porton) wrote :

> Does input work reliably after the 0.5 sec or so?

Yes.

summary: - Input does not work after switching keyboard language
+ Input does not work for half a second while switching keyboard language
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Incomplete → New
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

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 1754702, 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.

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