(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***) Package: KDE Version: 3.0.2 Severity: normal On my computer I'm using 3 languages: English Russian and Hebrew. I see that there are two different methods for switching languages from the keyboard. First the one that is defined in the "Shortcuts" which switches languages by "Ctrl-Alt-K" by default. Second one that is defined somewhere in KDE which switches by "Alt-Shift" but only between English and Hebrew. Maybe as a result of this I cannot define "Alt-Shift" as a language-switching shortcut in the Configuration panel (actually I can but it does not work). I think it should be fixed by having the language-switching functionality in one place only. In addition I think that editing actions "RTL Paragraph" and "LTR Paragraph" which in Windows are bound to "Ctrl-RightShift" and "Ctrl-LeftShift" could be useful. And to finish I suppose that having these shortcuts compatible with Windows by default (or having both CTRL-ALT-K and ALT-SHIFT simultaneously by default) would be quite useful for people trying to switch from Windows to KDE (and even more so for people who have to constantly switch between them). Thanks for the great work we're gonna beat them! (I'm committing my first KDE app really soon ;) Sasha
That's probably because you have Alt+Shift combination turned on in XConfig file as switching groups. There are two engines for switching keyboard in X11: layouts (which you switch with Ctrl+Alt+K) and groups (Alt+Shift in your case). You may turn off Alt+Shift group switching editing /etc/X11/XConfig* file (XkbOptions) or you can go to "Options" tab in kxkb configuration dialog and check "reset old options" this will clear previous xkb options set in X. Now as to the switching. E.g. I am using 3 layouts as well: English, Ukrainian and Russian. But switching En-Uk and En-Ru happens much more often than Uk-Ru. So What I do is I switch between Uk and Ru with Ctrl+Alt+K, and then between any of the cyrillic and english with Ctrl+Shift. Switch for groups you can set up in "Options" tab - there're several combinations for that. layouts is to be found in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols and groups are defined inside the layout file. Please take a look. Andriy
kxkb now uses only layout switching - so you don't have to care about group switching any more. As to the problem with assigning Alt+Shift - it's an X specific and also lack of integration between X and KDE. As it's not kxkb problem - I'll mark it as duplicate of 84606 to be able to follow the general problem. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84606 ***