[Bug 1083489] Re: Keyboard layout switcher ignores settings

[Fake51]

I can narrow this down more actually - it doesn't happen for everything,
seemingly only on some windows.

I can reproduce it with new windows with text areas where nothing has
been entered - so opening a compose window in thunderbird, or a blank
page in gedit, then switching keyboard layout using the keyboard
combination, will trigger the bug.

In other words it seems as if the keyboard switcher gets confounded by
new windows, and instead of switching keyboard layout for just that
window, it does it overall.

Also, the keyboard layout indicator fails to update - which makes me
think this bug is related to, if not a double of,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-
daemon/+bug/948763

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Title:
  Keyboard layout switcher ignores settings

Status in “console-setup” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In Keyboard Layout settings, you can choose "Allow different layouts
  for individual windows". This used to work just fine (in 12.04 and
  before) but recently in 12.10 a change has been introduced that makes
  the keyboard layout switcher (using a hotkey) ignore this setting.

  In effect, when I use my hotkey to switch keyboard layouts, the layout
  is switched not just for the active application but all applications
  at once. I typically see this when I am in an application like
  Thunderbird and switch to another keyboard layout to compose a
  message, then switch to a console (that was already open) where I
  suddenly input in a different language than when the console opened.

  What I expect to happen:
  the keyboard layout switcher only affects the currently enabled window

  What happened instead:
  more windows had their keyboard layout effected, not just the active window

  lsb_release -rd:
  Description:	Ubuntu 12.10
  Release:	12.10

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: keyboard-configuration 1.70ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Nov 27 10:18:33 2012
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-22 (96 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: console-setup
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-22 (36 days ago)

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