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The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience

Posted Jan 17, 2013 19:15 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience by mordae
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience

For some reason, the keyboard switching with Alt-Shift survived on one of the three systems I upgraded. No idea why. I'm even thinking of making copies of two systems and "converging" them, making sure the same packages are installed, comparing the /etc directories etc.

Why doesn't GNOME allow layout switching with a combination of modifiers? I'm using Alt-Shift-Space now and it's extremely unreliable. I have to be very careful and check that the layout switching has taken effect before I start typing.

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Posted Jan 18, 2013 4:33 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Sorry for replying to myself! The fix is

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.keyboard active false

LXDE users can simply disable GNOME settings daemon in Preferences->Desktop Session Settings. X needs to be restarted by init 3/init 5 or by reboot. Logout is not enough.

Once again, GNOME comes with a new shiny feature and ships it before it's good enough to replace the existing solution. The developers are aware of it and promise to implement Alt-Shift some day.