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#1 2012-11-29 11:34:40
- evaliauka
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- Registered: 2011-08-25
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Switching between keyboard layouts is slow in gnome 3.6
Hi.
After upgrade to gnome v. 3.6 I have the following problem:
When I press alt+shift, layout switches not immediately, but with delay of about 1-2 seconds. When typing, the result looks like this - фкchlinux.
Does anyone have this issue? And does anyone know how to fix it?
Thank you!
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#2 2012-11-30 20:20:05
- arcadoss
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Re: Switching between keyboard layouts is slow in gnome 3.6
Hi,
I have this problem too.
After migration to systemd and full upgrade I found that I can't switch languages anymore. I've looked into gnome-control-center and discovered that it's not possible to bind Menu or Alt+Shift for layout switching (only Alt+0 or something like that).
I've tried to use qxkb but it looks like qxkb and some gnome tool conflict with each other -- qxkb bindings disappear after ~20 minutes.
After that I set layout switch binding with gnome-tweak-tool and have the same delay 
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#3 2012-11-30 20:34:18
- arcadoss
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Re: Switching between keyboard layouts is slow in gnome 3.6
I've disabled bindings in gnome-tweak-tool, opened dconf-editor and manually set org/gnome/desktop/xkb-options to ['grp:toggle,caps:swapescape,grp_led:scroll,lv3:lwin_switch'].
It's all work for me now.
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#4 2012-11-30 20:56:24
- evaliauka
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Re: Switching between keyboard layouts is slow in gnome 3.6
No, that doesn't work for me.
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#5 2012-11-30 21:25:05
- arcadoss
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Re: Switching between keyboard layouts is slow in gnome 3.6
No, that doesn't work for me.
I have right alt as layout switcher, btw.
Have you tried qxkb ?
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#6 2012-12-02 18:17:45
- kyak
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Re: Switching between keyboard layouts is slow in gnome 3.6
I also experience the delay in keyboard layout switch in Gnome 3.6.
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#7 2012-12-08 21:24:36
- giner
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#8 2012-12-08 21:42:32
- evaliauka
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Re: Switching between keyboard layouts is slow in gnome 3.6
I only hope that this will be fixed in gnome 3.8 (Release schedule). Otherwise I'll think of moving to another DE. This is a very annoying issue.
It would not be so bad, if they didn't remove ability to set layout per application(or window).
Last edited by evaliauka (2012-12-08 21:53:21)
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#9 2012-12-16 16:35:48
- kyak
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Re: Switching between keyboard layouts is slow in gnome 3.6
So basically there are two issues.
The first one is that switching is very slow. I solved it by making X handle keyboard layouts instead of gnome.
The second one is that the layout is not remembered per windows. I solved it by using sbxkb (which is also a keyboard layout indicator).
After doing so, i realized that gnome is not helping me to be productive. In fact, i found myself using the same configuration i used prior to switching to gnome couple of months ago.
So now i'm back to openbox, tint2 and friends.
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