[smc-discuss] [x-post] Regression in gnome keyboard layout selection, all Indian xkb layouts disappeared

Pirate Praveen praveen at onenetbeyond.org
Sat Jul 1 06:34:36 PDT 2017


On വെള്ളി 30 ജൂണ്‍ 2017 08:46 വൈകു, Nandakumar Edamana wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed it too. Today I switched over to Debian 9. Installation itself
> was a tiresome job. The problem with the IM didn't surprise me as I had
> read your mail before.
> 
> I found and followed this page, which says how we can turn of the new
> integrated IM:
> 
> https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointFive/Features/IBus#How_to_use_other_IM_frameworks
> 
> I tried fcitx, and contrary to what you said, it APPEARED on the left
> bottom part of the screen. IM selection was not that easy. I had to take
> the whole configuration screen and push the preferred layout to the top of
> the list each time I had to switch the layout (before that, I had added
> Malayalam, which was already available in fcitx - I had to turn of a
> checkbox though - 'Show current language only' - something like that).

Glad that fcitx worked for you. The issue with blacklisting has been
resolved upstream. We need to update xkb-data package in debian with
this change.

> This is of course irritating. But this page taught me the commands to
> switch IM easily:
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_layouts
> 
> So I wrote a shell script:
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> if [ -f /tmp/ml ]; then
> 	setxkbmap us
> 	rm /tmp/ml
> else
> 	setxkbmap in -variant mal
> 	cat /dev/null > /tmp/ml
> fi
> 
> Then I created a shortcut for it (which was the next difficult thing since
> GNOME Shell eats up all combinations). What I have now chosen is Right
> Ctrl + Menu.
> 
> This is of course not a real solution. But it works for the time being.
> 
> Nandakumar Edamana

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