Bug#1032388: gnome-shell: fails to switch keyboard layout from topbar menu

[Simon McVittie]

Control: reassign -1 src:mutter 43.3-4
Control: affects -1 + gnome-shell

On Sun, 05 Mar 2023 at 18:23:06 +0100, Todor Tsankov wrote:
> Since a recent update

gnome-shell 43.3-2 was only a translation update, so it's
unlikely to be that.

Based on the timing of your report, this is probably a regression in
mutter 43.3-4. Please look at /var/log/apt/history.log: what version of
libmutter-11-0 would you have been using at the time you most recently
restarted gnome-shell before this regression?

Are you using gnome-shell in X11 mode ("GNOME on Xorg") or in Wayland mode?

I can reproduce something similar in a test VM using gnome-text-editor
and gnome-terminal as my sample applications, but only in Xorg, not
in Wayland.

Upstream has been tracking some issues involving focus handling which are
probably related to this.

> I have the option "Switch input sources individually for each window"
> set to "on"

If you turn off that option, does that make a difference?

    smcv