Bug#931280: gnome-shell: Keyboard layout randomly alternates

[Paul Menzel]

Severity: normal


On 30.06.19 15:58, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 14:35:47 +0200 Paul Menzel wrote:
>> Package: gnome-shell
>> Version: 3.30.2-9
>> Severity: serious
> 
> That feels vastly exaggerated. That aside...

Ok, if you say so that it won’t cause data loss. I change it to *normal*.

>> With Debian Sid/unstable with the default GNOME session, that means
>> Wayland is used, and with two keyboard layouts configured (Neo
>> (default), and German) sometimes the keyboard layout changes from Neo to
>> normal German without me pressing the corresponding shortcut. The
>> notification in the GNOME Shell’s top bar also still shows de₁, which is
>> for Deutsch (Neo 2), so it is not changed.
>>
>> Unfortunately I have not figured out, what causes this. My suspicion is
>> that “X.Org applications” like Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird are
>> involved. Maybe the GDM session running in parallel has something to do
>> with it? No idea.
>>
>> Debugging help is much appreciated.
> 
> I too have two keyboard layouts configured and this happens to me as
> well, under GNOME/Xorg and afaics is simply me pressing by accident
> Windows/Super + Space. This is the shortcut for switching the keyboard
> layout.
> I suspect it's the same for you.
> You can reconfigure the shortcut in gnome-control-center.
> Go to "Tastatur->Texteingabe->Zur nächsten Quelle wechseln"

I am pretty sure, it’s not it, because if I press this shortcut, a popup 
is shown and the notification in the top bar changes.


Kind regards,

Paul