Bug 356880 - Keyboard layout switcher does not work
Summary: Keyboard layout switcher does not work
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_keyboard_layout (show other bugs)
Version: 5.5.1
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andriy Rysin
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Reported: 2015-12-18 16:48 UTC by Gregor Mi
Modified: 2016-01-11 18:11 UTC (History)
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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.