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javum

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Registered: 2009-07-31

Posts: 24

Can't setup keyboard layout switching on Gnome 49.1

Everything was fine on GNOME 49.0 - I could switch layouts with Control+Shift.
But after updating to GNOME 49.1, all the hotkeys were changed. Now the layout switching shortcut is Super+Space, which works, but I really need Control+Shift.

I can’t change the key combination in Settings - nothing happens when I try to set it in the key combination dialog.
I’ve also tried changing the options via dconf at /org/gnome/desktop/wm/keybindings/switch-input-source

The current value is:

['<Super>space', 'XF86Keyboard']

I’ve tried many combinations like:

['<Control><Shift>', 'XF86Keyboard']

but no luck.

Any ideas on how to change the key combination?

ne_bknn

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Registered: 2025-10-19

Posts: 1

Re: Can't setup keyboard layout switching on Gnome 49.1

A friend of mine and I have layout change mapped to caps lock via gnome tweaks.

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options
['grp:caps_toggle']

It stopped working after 49.1 update. What's even more frustrating, pressing caps lock may hang GNOME completely (but ssh works and restarting display-manager gets system back alive).

In logs I can see this stuff, indefinitely:

...
Overwriting existing binding of keysym 1008ff15 with keysym 1008ff2c (keycode ae).
Overwriting existing binding of keysym 1008ff14 with keysym 1008ff31 (keycode ac).
Overwriting existing binding of keysym 1008ff15 with keysym 1008ff2c (keycode ae).
Overwriting existing binding of keysym 1008ff14 with keysym 1008ff31 (keycode ac).
...

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 70,981

Re: Can't setup keyboard layout switching on Gnome 49.1

possibly related to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p2268000

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javum

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Registered: 2009-07-31

Posts: 24

Re: Can't setup keyboard layout switching on Gnome 49.1

Thank you all!
It's here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-sh … ssues/8738

pndhd

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Registered: 2025-10-30

Posts: 1

Re: Can't setup keyboard layout switching on Gnome 49.1

As a quick fix you can configure keyd to remap keyboard layout switching.
Example config:

[ids]
*
[main]
capslock = macro(leftmeta+space)
[shift]
capslock = capslock

Edited:
This config is much more stable for me:

[ids]
*
[main]
capslock = M-space
[shift]
capslock = capslock

Last edited by pndhd (2025-11-06 13:09:07)

javum

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Registered: 2009-07-31

Posts: 24

Re: Can't setup keyboard layout switching on Gnome 49.1

I switched to Cinnamon and I'm happy