Hello, I’m using Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation Edition) with the Gnome desktop environment and X11. The issue lies with the keyboard layout. I configured switching to Ctrl+Shift in dconf. Now the Gnome keyboard layout indicator doesn’t respond to language switching, and even removing all layouts in the settings menu doesn’t change anything. If I also set switching to Ctrl+Shift using Gnome Tweaks, the indicator works, but keyboard shortcuts stop working for non-English layouts. Please help
It sounds like you’re experiencing some issues with keyboard layout configuration in Fedora 39 with the Gnome desktop environment.
Reset Keyboard Settings : First, let’s try resetting your keyboard settings to their default values. You can do this by running the following commands in the terminal:
gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options
This command will reset any custom keyboard layout options you’ve set.
If the issue persists, you can try resetting the dconf configuration related to keyboard layout settings. Open a terminal and run the following commands:
dconf reset -f /org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/
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Thanks, that helped me to partially solve the problem for Silverblue 40,
now I can switch the layouts with Super+Space at least.
Still, xkb-options set with gnome-tweaks apparently just have no effect, so I can’t set e.g. Caps key for the switching.
Any ideas?
I found out it does have an effect, for me, Have English US, Arabic EG,
and pressing alt shift while having the “Show keyboard layout” it says in the layout window it’s now Null, (and when I type it’s Arabic)
that’s why it can’t show a change at the language indicator (I guess),
but can’t find a way to fix that so far.
even changing it with the Win + Space key changes the indicator but the layout window still says null.
2 months Linux user here.
Hope this helps someone figure it out.