Cannot switch keyboard layout with shortcut after login SUMMARY When I log in to the Plasma session (X11), my assigned layout switching shortcut (Alt-Shift) doesn't work. Left-clicking the panel indicator also has no effect. To be able to switch layouts, I need to right-click the indicator and manually select the second layout once. After that's done, both the global shortcut and the indicator left-click work as expected. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Log in to Plasma 2. Press the layout switching shortcut (Alt-Shift) OBSERVED RESULT The layout is not affected EXPECTED RESULT The layout is changed SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.2 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I have 2 layouts configured, English and Russian. In the KWin console (launched from KRunner), I see both of them as available. When opening the context menu for the first time, I see a separator between English and Russian, which then disappears with the workaround.
Is this with the new layout applet or the old one?
It's with the old applet, although I think the applet is just an indicator and only serves as a workaround here.
Could you try it on master? I had this issue too but can't reproduce any more.
The tricky bit is that I cannot reproduce it on a fresh user... But I do not want to get configs updated for Plasma 5.21 on my main user account before the beta, so it seems I cannot test with master until then :)
So apparently the reason of this breakage was IBus, which first got installed in openSUSE as a dependency of Plasma's Emoji picker, and then continued to be required as a dependency of Zoom. I removed it now, breaking Zoom's dependency, and the layout switching issue is gone. It is no longer required for the Emoji picker.
Nice. Can we close this now?