Bug 490226

Summary: Keyboard switching shortcuts broken in lockscreen
Product: [Unmaintained] kscreenlocker Reporter: elydgolden
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: kdedev
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description elydgolden 2024-07-13 12:37:28 UTC 
Created attachment 171633 [details]
Keyboard switching not working in lockscreen

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SUMMARY

The keyboard switching shortcuts do not behave as expected in the lockscreen.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Configure (at least) two keyboard layouts (I tested with exactly two)
2. Lock the screen
3. Try to switch layouts with Meta+Alt+K or Meta+Alt+L

OBSERVED RESULT

On X11, the Meta+Alt+K shortcut refuses to change the layout; it just shows a popup of the current layout. Meta+Alt+L works but only after using Meta+Alt+K, and moreover using it still enters characters into the password field.

On Wayland, Meta+Alt+K works as normal, but Meta+Alt+L doesn't work at all it just presses the L key.

EXPECTED RESULT

The layouts switch normally, just as if the screen is unlocked

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Linux/KDE Plasma: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 20240711
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 TraceyC 2024-07-18 00:09:49 UTC 
Thank you for reporting this bug. It looks like a duplicate of Bug 488268
Keyboard layout can't be changed via its Alternative global shortcut, so I'm linking this to that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 488268 ***
Comment 2 elydgolden 2024-07-18 07:36:29 UTC 
(In reply to TraceyC from comment #1)
> Thank you for reporting this bug. It looks like a duplicate of Bug 488268
> Keyboard layout can't be changed via its Alternative global shortcut, so I'm
> linking this to that one.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 488268 ***

Seems like it. Though that bug has no information on the "Last Used" shortcut, so I'll add it there.