Bug#902932: cinnamon: System-tray language switcher cannot be used via mouse
Package: cinnamon
Version: 3.6.7-8
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
Dear Maintainer,
I use two languages -- English and Hebrew, and so I use two keyboard layouts.
I usually switch between them using a keyboard shortcut, and that mostly works.
But I've found that the language can only be switched when the focus is in a
window where one may edit text. This means that if I click a window decoration,
language cannot be switched with the shortcut; it also means that choosing a
language with the mouse, using the pop-up that springs when the icon from the
system try is clicked, never works.
On a more minor tone -- I sometimes run apps as a different user; when these
have focues, the layout switcher apparently fails to realize that it is in
"editable space", and again, language cannot be switched.
In case this matters, the apps in question include Konsole and Firefox, and
I start-as-other-user with kdesudo (yes, I'm a relatively recent convert from
KDE).
Thanks,
Shai.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IL, LC_CTYPE=en_IL (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IL:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages cinnamon depends on:
ii cinnamon-common 3.6.7-8
ii cinnamon-control-center 3.6.5-2
ii cinnamon-desktop-data 3.6.2-2
ii cinnamon-screensaver 3.6.1-2
ii cinnamon-session 3.6.1-1
ii cinnamon-settings-daemon 3.6.2-1
ii cjs 3.2.0-3
ii cups-pk-helper 0.2.6-1+b1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.28.0-2
ii gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 0.6.45-1
ii gir1.2-caribou-1.0 0.4.21-5
ii gir1.2-clutter-1.0 1.26.2+dfsg-4
ii gir1.2-cmenu-3.0 3.6.0-1
ii gir1.2-cogl-1.0 1.22.2-3
ii gir1.2-cvc-1.0 3.6.2-2
ii gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 2.36.11-2
ii gir1.2-gkbd-3.0 3.26.0-3
ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.56.1-1
ii gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 3.28.2-1
ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.22.30-2
ii gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0 1.8.4-3
ii gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 0.3.2-1
ii gir1.2-meta-muffin-0.0 3.6.0-1
ii gir1.2-nm-1.0 1.10.8-1
ii gir1.2-nma-1.0 1.8.12-2
ii gir1.2-notify-0.7 0.7.7-3
ii gir1.2-pango-1.0 1.42.1-2
ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 0.105-20
ii gir1.2-soup-2.4 2.62.1-1
ii gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 0.99.8-1
ii gir1.2-xapp-1.0 1.0.4-2
ii gkbd-capplet 3.26.0-3
ii gnome-backgrounds 3.28.0-1
ii gnome-themes-extra 3.28-1
ii gnome-themes-standard 3.28-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.28.0-1
ii iso-flags-png-320x240 1.0.2-1
ii libatk-bridge2.0-0 2.26.2-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.28.1-1
ii libc6 2.27-3
ii libcairo2 1.15.10-3
ii libcinnamon-menu-3-0 3.6.0-1
ii libcjs0 3.2.0-3
ii libclutter-1.0-0 1.26.2+dfsg-4
ii libcogl-pango20 1.22.2-3
ii libcogl-path20 1.22.2-3
ii libcogl20 1.22.2-3
ii libcroco3 0.6.12-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-2
ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.56.1-1
ii libgl1 1.0.0+git20180308-3
ii libglib2.0-0 2.56.1-2
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.56.1-2
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.14.1-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.30-2
ii libmuffin0 3.6.0-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.1-2
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.1-2
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-5
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.5-1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1
ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b1
ii mesa-utils 8.4.0-1
ii muffin 3.6.0-1
ii nemo 3.6.5-1
ii network-manager-gnome 1.8.12-2
ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-7
ii python 2.7.15-3
ii python-dbus 1.2.8-2
ii python-gi-cairo 3.28.2-1
ii python-lxml 4.2.1-1
ii python-pam 0.4.2-13.2
ii python-pexpect 4.2.1-1
ii python-pil 4.3.0-2
ii python-pyinotify 0.9.6-1
ii python3 3.6.5-3
ii python3-dbus 1.2.8-2
ii python3-gi 3.28.2-1
ii xapps-common 1.0.4-2
Versions of packages cinnamon recommends:
ii blueman 2.0.5-1+b1
ii cinnamon-l10n 3.6.4-1
ii gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 3.28.0-2
ii gksu 2.0.2-9+b1
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.28.2-1
ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:18.04.0-1
ii metacity-common 1:3.28.0-1
ii mlterm [x-terminal-emulator] 3.8.4-1+b1
ii xiterm+thai [x-terminal-emulator] 1.10-2
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 333-1
Versions of packages cinnamon suggests:
pn cinnamon-doc <none>
pn python-opencv <none>
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