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After some experiments to enable Alt+Shift for layout switching on freshly installed Ubuntu Studio 15.04, the layout switch stopped to work at all. The language indicator changes if I switch by clicking it on the panel, but input is still in English.

How to troubleshoot the problem?

MORE INFO: Ubuntu Studio 15.04 uses Xfce 4.12 Desktop Environment. I was told to disable IBus, because it looks like it doesn't support modifier-only shortcuts like Alt+Shift (https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/1821). So I disabled IBus. In Xfce it is done through Settings -> Personal -> Language Support:

Language Support Menu in Xfce 4.12

However, I couldn't find Text Entry menu shown in @cl-netbox answer in Xfce. Only Keyboard Input Methods which proposes to launch IBus Daemon and exits if you don't agree:

Keyboard Input Methods in Xfce 4.12

So I am stuck with no way to use Russian language on my Ubuntu Studio. Does anybody know how to fix that?

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  • @cl-netbox, I tried this solution, but it didn't work.
    – anatoly techtonik
    Sep 2, 2015 at 13:27
  • @cl-netbox updated question with more information why switching IBus off is not an option.
    – anatoly techtonik
    Sep 3, 2015 at 6:01
  • I have no experience with U. Studio, but have some with iBus and all kind of input method config. on 14.04. Can you be more precise as to what "input still in English" really means ? Do you refer to your keyboard layout or to the default language support, for instance on my 14.04 Desktop Ubuntu, I can go from Zh to En to Es and back while retain whatever keyboard config I need. Please, clarify a bit your wording.
    – Cbhihe
    Sep 5, 2015 at 18:04
  • @Cbhihe when I switch language I expect typed letters to be in that language, so it is all about keyboard layout.
    – anatoly techtonik
    Sep 5, 2015 at 22:36
  • Between what 2+ keyboard layouts do you switch ? US_En and ... ?
    – Cbhihe
    Sep 6, 2015 at 9:30

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I need to give credits to @cl-netbox and @Cbhihe for helping me to find the right way. So after disabling IBus language switching thing stopped to work at all, and Settings -> Other -> Keyboard Input Methods menu provided a wrong way to search for layout switching.

The proper place to configure layout with disabled IBus appeared to be in Settings -> Hardware -> Keyboard -> Layout:

Settings -> Hardware -> Keyboard

After opening the window and switching to Layout tab I had to turn off "Use system defaults" flag and then configure the window:

Layout

The list was empty, and adding Russian fixed it. The trick was to select the category to get all keys right, and not one of its children:

Choosing right Russian language

Now I can also use Alt+Shift shortcut. The only missing part is language indicator on the panel, which is a subject of another question.

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  • Sadly this does not work on Trusty 14.04 LTS, as the Keyboard-Layout-Tab is not available there
    – Tino
    Dec 26, 2015 at 11:54

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