Keyboard layout indicator vanishes after Suspend or Screenlock

[hpp23]

Related to bug 1812266.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04

apt-cache policy gnome-shell
gnome-shell:
installed: 3.28.4-0ubuntu18.04.1

After Suspend or Screenlock ...

What you expected to happen:
Keyboard layout indicator should be visible all the time.

What happened instead:
not visible anymore

Current manual fix:
Press SUPER
give search field the focus
Press SUPER+Spacebar several times until current keyboard layout is selected.
Keyboard layout indicator is visible again with current layout.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.28.4-0ubuntu18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-52.56-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-52-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jun 24 17:40:12 2019
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-07-20 (339 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[hpp23 (hpp23-deactivatedaccount)]

I use two keyboard layouts:
(1) German
(2) Chinese (Intelligent Pinyin)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Just in case it is related, please try UNINSTALLING these extensions and then reboot:

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'activities-config@nls1729'
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We find a lot of bugs are caused by extensions.

[hpp23 (hpp23-deactivatedaccount)]

Uninstalling all Gnome extensions doesn't make any difference. Before January 2019 everything worked as expected - with or without extensions. The above described bug came up at around Jan 10 2019, and was never fixed. The fix of bug 1812266 didn't change anything to the better.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-shell (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[hpp23 (hpp23-deactivatedaccount)]

I wrote on on 2019-06-24:

After Suspend or Screenlock ...

What you expected to happen:
Keyboard layout indicator should be visible all the time.

What happened instead:
not visible anymore

Current manual fix:
Press SUPER
give search field the focus
Press SUPER+Spacebar several times until current keyboard layout is selected.
Keyboard layout indicator is visible again with current layout.

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To clarify:
The bug still exists, after Suspend or Screenlock:
1) The Keyboard layout indicator is not visible
2) During the first keyboard usage after suspend, it becomes visible again without any further action.
3) The above manual fix is not needed.

[hpp23 (hpp23-deactivatedaccount)]

After 8 months waiting for a fix, I left Ubuntu and switched to a distro that works.