Bug 460295

Summary:	IBUS interferes with keyboard layout selection
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Amnon <amyekut>
Component:	Keyboard Layout widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	amyekut, butirsky, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.24.6
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Amnon 2022-10-12 11:09:02 UTC

SUMMARY

Since two days ago the "keyboard layout" selection broke down. 
I have been using English + Hebrew for years, with "alt+shift" switching. 
All of a sudden this stopped working. The keyboard selector stopped reactin and I got stuck on "English". 

After a bit of fooling around I discovered that IBUS is willing to work for me (switching between these two layouts), with its own unmutable switch "win+shift".

This is definitely a bug. 

Note: I upgraded to KUBUNTU 22.04 several weeks ago, and this problem only appeared two days ago. Thus it must have come from some recent software update.

Please restore / revive previous traditional keyboard layout selection, i.e.  system settings -> input deciedes -> keyboard

Thanks. AY 

STEPS TO REPRODUCE 
[see above] 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-50-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz
Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics

machine: Dell XPS 13 - 9310

Comment 1 Amnon 2022-10-12 12:29:17 UTC

Question: will disabling IBUS by issuing the next command in a terminal:
  im-config -n none
(possibly with sudo in front) solve my problem? 

This is suggested here:
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/1394938/keyboard-layout-ibus-or-system-settings

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-10-12 19:43:42 UTC

I don't know. Can you try it and see? I suspect that IBus is overriding the shortcut, as our code didn't change in the past two days, we you observed.

Comment 3 Amnon 2022-10-12 20:41:24 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2)
> I don't know. Can you try it and see? I suspect that IBus is overriding the
> shortcut, as our code didn't change in the past two days, we you observed.

It worked, without any visible damage.

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2022-10-12 20:54:09 UTC

Cool. Then I think we can pretty conclusively say that this change came from IBus--either in the form of a regression, or an intentional change. I would recommend you ask the IBus people for details.