[Bug 1083489] Re: Keyboard layout switcher ignores settings

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Keyboard layout switcher ignores settings

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

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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