[xubuntu-users] switch keyboard layout - anybody?

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

(2014/11/03 23:46), Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> Good evening
> (running xubuntu 14.04; clean new install)
>
> I have trouble switching the KB layout.
>
> I did setup (1) Japanese KB + (2) German (querty) KB
> switching is set to "Alt+shift".
> If I set it, it works ONCE.
> But as soon as I touch the KB icon or switch between Japanese
> "alphanumeric" input and "character" input,
> the switching fails and the German KB indicator disappears.
>
> If I set the switching anew to "Alt+shift", or anything else, if will
> work (again) once - as long as I do not touch the KB icon.
>
> I also tried to change the "type of keyboard" to several forms available from a list
> as well as about any setting I could find. No change.
>
> This is really idiotic and I have spend already many hours is trying to
> fix it.
> Is there no way to make Linux remember that shortcut???
> On a Mouse computer with exactly the same system installed, it "somehow"
> works.
> (having "only" the glitch, that the icon indicating alphanumeric/Jap.
> character input does never change, even though the input method changes)
>
> Thank you.
> Thomas
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This cannot be so difficult.
I hate to say this, but under Windows this is: select KB, select switch 
key, click OK.
FINISH
I refuse to believe, that nobody else has any problems switching 
keyboard layouts.
AND I refuse to believe, that there is no information at all on this 
problem,
but so far nobody on any list or forum as ever responded.