Bug 356880

Summary:	Keyboard layout switcher does not work
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Gregor Mi <codestruct>
Component:	kcm_keyboard_layout	Assignee:	Andriy Rysin <arysin>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	bshah, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.5.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Gregor Mi 2015-12-18 16:48:44 UTC

At some point after logging in to plasma session the Keyboard layout switcher stops working.

The scrollwheel and the Ctrl+Alt+K shortcut stop working. Also click and right-click do not work or the context menu appears only after 10 seconds and switching the language there also does not work.

The following workarounds do NOT work for me:
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295438#c53 (right-click on layout indicator)
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334784#c2 (kill and restart kded5)

There were suggestions that this has something to do with the DBUS.

I wonder if there is a shell command that can change the keyboard layout "by hand".

Comment 1 Gregor Mi 2015-12-19 23:04:35 UTC

> At some point after logging in to plasma session the Keyboard layout switcher stops working.

It happens when I start Mozilla Firefox. I'll try with a clean profile.

Comment 2 Gregor Mi 2015-12-20 14:49:37 UTC

After new login, I cleaned the Firefox cache and started it. Started Thunderbird and kate. Scroll wheel did still work. After a few minutes (cannot point to the exact action) I noticed that the scroll wheel on Keyboard layout switcher again stopped working.

Comment 3 Gregor Mi 2016-01-11 18:11:33 UTC

After a fresh install of openSUSE 42.1 the problem was resolved.