Ubuntu
indicator-keyboard package

Keyboard layout cannot be switched when lockscreen is active

Bug #1252478 reported by Vsevolod Velichko
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Bug Description

When I lock my desktop and the gnome-screensaver password prompt is displayed, I see that the last active layout has been remembered and I cannot change it until the desktop is unlocked.
However if the active layout was not the English one, I cannot enter the password and I have to use C-A-Bksp to restart the whole session (and this obviously drives me mad :) ).

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Mahmoud Fawzy (m-fawzy) wrote :

yes I can verify the same behaviour here too :( --however a work around for this is to click "Switch User" then you're taken to the login screen where you can change your language and login without loosing your session

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Mahmoud Fawzy (m-fawzy) wrote :

well, strangely enough after posting the previous comment, I found out about bug #1260226 which tells that alt + shift and ctrl + shift still work on XOrg's side so simply you can click alt+shift to switch language while on lockscreen and it just works !!

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Vsevolod Velichko (torkvemada) wrote :

In my case at some moment Unity had broken the Xorg keybinding so I had to set the indicator-keyboard one.

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