Bug#1024259: ibus: Super-Space stopped switching keyboard layouts (Cinnamon)
Control: severity -1 normal
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On 2022-11-16 16:11, Tomáš Szaniszlo wrote:
Dear maintainer, after a system reboot I have found out that my
keyboard shortcut Super-Space for switching keyboard layouts (using
the IBus preferences applet, in Cinnamon DE) does not work: when in
terminal, the switch does not happen and a it seems like only a space
itself was pressed.
At least some other keyboard shortcuts with Super work (e.g.
Super-ArrowUp).
When I change the shortcut to Alt-Shift-Space, it works (although a
small switching window briefly appears which I am not really sure was
appearing before -- so I cannot rule out that an applet or other
component for the keyboard switching has changed without me realizing
so).
I tested with my only available non-GNOME installation, i.e. Xubuntu
22.10, and AFAICT <Super>space works as expected as the shortcut for
switching input sources, also with ibus 1.5.27-4.
Moreover, it seems that also my compose key (mapped to Right Alt)
also stopped working.
IBus isn't even used when you define a compose key, is it?
From the APT's history.log it seems to me that since the previous
reboot the most likely related package updates were to ibus
(1.5.27-2+b1 to 1.5.27-4), although I may be mistaken.
That's only a weak indication, and not sufficient IMO to claim that ibus
is to blame for your observations.
Personally I would look closer into the desktop's keyboard settings.
Maybe Cinnamon has started to use <Super> for something else by default
which conflicts with using <Super>space via IBus Preferences.
Or you may want to install some other desktop environment to see if the
issue is present there as well.
In any case we need more information before accepting this as a triaged
ibus bug.
--
Rgds,
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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