Cannot change keyboard layout - Gnome 3.8 - OpenSUSE 12.3

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Hello everybody.
Recently I’ve installed 12.3 edition in my desktop. Newbie to openSUSE world.
I’ve updated to gnome version 3.8 through an easy procedure via zypper. (add repo - refresh - dup) . From this time I cannot change the keyboard layout with any combination except the Super + Space. Any other combination (Alt+Shift , Alt+Ctrl … etc) will fail.
I’ve asked a friend who has Gnome 3.8 in Ubuntu (via PPA) just because I want to be sure this is not a Gnome’s problem, and I was right. There, the keyboard layout switch works as it should.

What I have tried so far listed below.

  1. Change keyboard layout through “Keyboard Shortcuts -> Typing”
  2. Change layout through “Gnome Tweak Tool -> Typing -> Modifiers only-input source switcher”
  3. Add 2 lines inside /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keytable.conf (XkbOptions and XkbLayout) to match my preferred layout switch.
  4. Add in /etc/xdg/autostart a new .desktop entry . (Exec=setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle “us,gr”)

Any idea would be welcome :slight_smile:

Regards
NikTh

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Have you tried with YaST

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Probably I’m missing something here, because I cannot see an option to set my keyboard keys combination to change the layout. (also expert settings have not this option)


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I am having the same issue here … just upgraded from OS 12.2 > 12.3 and the system is uptodate with the repositories … I am currently customizing settings. One setting that i rely on heavily is the ‘Compose Key’ shortcut that allows me to add foreign accents to letters.

However … the options is DISABLED in this version of OS [see screenshot] … have tried to find the answer locally but am totally out of ideas! … This post is the ONLY one that i can find on the net regarding this issue …

Has anybody got any ideas how i might ENABLE the Typing Shortcuts???

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If somebody could confirm whether this is a distro wide issue with OS12.3-64 … or is it just my installation.

Thanks. :slight_smile:

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Click on those “disabled” labels and it will allow you set key combinations

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I think yes. I said that on my first post.

Unfortunately this not apply in my installation. When I click “disabled” to set a custom combo it just ignores it.

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OMG!!! … :open_mouth: … perhaps a more intuitive label might be [Not set] … or [Select …]', because the function is NOT disabled, is it!?!

Thnx Vaz…

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you are welcome

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Have the same problem in 12.3 after update. It ignores any buttons i press. Maybe i could edit some config-file manually to teach Suse change layout?

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My keyboard is supposed to be US. So I set on YaST “Portuguese (Brasil – US accents)” and it works correctly on the test field and on yast. But any other location it will not work. So I think there is a conflict on my keyboard layout. Changing it under “system settings” → “keyboard” → “layout settings” does no effect. (And there are no “Portuguese (Brasil – US accents)” option there). Any hints on where should I look next? /etc/sysconfig says:

## Path:        Hardware/Keyboard
## Description: Keyboard settings
## Type:        string
## Default:     ""
## ServiceRestart: kbd
#
# Keyboard settings for the text console
#
# Keyboard mapping
# (/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/)
# e.g. KEYTABLE="de-latin1-nodeadkeys", "us" or empty for US settings
#
KEYTABLE="us-acentos.map.gz"

## Type:        integer
## Default:
#
# Keyboard delay time in ms (250, 500, 750, 1000)
KBD_DELAY=""

## Type:    string(2.0,2.1,2.3,2.5,2.7,3.0,3.3,3.7,4.0,4.3,4.6,5.0,5.5,6.0,6.7,7.5,8.0,8.6,9.2,10.0,10.9,12.0,13.3,15.0,16.0,17.1,18.5,20.0,21.8,24.0,26.7,30.0)
## Default:
#
# Keyboard repeat rate (2.0 - 30.0)
KBD_RATE=""

## Type:        list(bios,yes,no)
## Default:     bios
#
# NumLock on? ("yes" or "no" or empty or "bios" for BIOS setting)
KBD_NUMLOCK="bios"

## Type:        yesno
## Default:     no
#
# ScrollLock on? ("yes" or "no")
KBD_SCRLOCK="no"

## Type:        yesno
## Default:     no
#
# CapsLock on? ("yes" or "no")
KBD_CAPSLOCK="no"

## Type:        yesno
## Default:     no
#
# Disable CAPS LOCK and make it a normal Shift key?
# (Ctrl Caps Lock will still toggle Caps Lock functionality)
# Note that you need to tweak the xkb maps or use xmodmap
# if you want to do the same under X-Windows. In ~/.Xmodmap:
# keycode 0x42 = Shift_L Shift_L
#
KBD_DISABLE_CAPS_LOCK="no"

## Type:        string
## Default:
#
# ttys for the above settings 
# Example: "tty1 tty2"
# "" for tty's 1-6
#
KBD_TTY=""

# 
# Compose tables to be loaded.
# Compose tables are good for producing characters, which can not
#  be directly input from your keyboard, such as characters with
#  accents, currency signs, ...
# Please read /usr/share/doc/packages/kbd/README.SuSE for an
#  explanation.
# You may leave this variable empty (default compose table from kernel 
#  or KEYTABLE will be used then -- most keyboard maps don't have a
#  compose table, though)
# More than one compose table can be given. For a selection of possible
#  tables see /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/include/compose.*
# You can give more than one compose table, but only the last one will
#  determine the compose combinations.
#  The word "clear" has a special meaning:
#  Your compose table will be cleared, before more compose symbols are
#  added.
# The files compose.winkeys and shiftctrl may be used to map the 
#  <compose> key to the W*n menu key and Shift-Ctrl, respectively,
#  on a PC keyboard.
# A typical setting for Latin1 users (with a PC keyboard) may be
#  COMPOSETABLE="clear winkeys shiftctrl latin1.add"
# For latin2, this would be
#  COMPOSETABLE="clear winkeys shiftctrl latin2"
# A typical setting for sb. with a character set, where a matching 
#  compose table is missing (but with a PC keyboard), would be
#  COMPOSETABLE="winkeys shiftctrl"
# 
COMPOSETABLE="clear latin1.add"

# The YaST-internal identifier of the attached keyboard.
#
YAST_KEYBOARD="portugese-br-usa,pc104"