Hi again,
On 2020-08-27 08:25, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
>> Possibly console-setup could be modified again, so the default
>> shortcut depends on XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP ("No toggling" for GNOME
>> and "Alt+Shift" for others). That way there wouldn't be a need to
>> involve ubiquity or other desktops.
>
> When launching a console, XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP isn't guaranteed to be
> set. E.g. one can just switch to vt2 and login there, or one can run
> `sudo -i` which doesn't preserve the XDG_* environment variables.
> Losing the ability to type Greek because I used `sudo -i` wouldn't
> be appropriate.
The configuration typically does not happen when you launch a console;
with that approach /etc/default/keyboard would be already changed on
non-GNOME machines. So I don't think the absence of XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
in those situations matters.
>> Right. Super+Space is default on GNOME.
>
> Up to now, /etc/default/keyboard allowed for defining a shortcut
> GLOBALLY, and the console, the display managers, and all the desktop
> environments respected that. Is supporting "a global shortcut" no
> longer a Debian/Ubuntu goal?
It's not unsupported. "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration" can be
run whenever you like.
What we know is that a global shortcut isn't compatible with the way
gnome-control-center currently works, since it may easily be overwritten
as soon as the user makes changes via Settings.
We also know that setting Alt+Shift prevents a user (at least on GNOME)
from using Alt+Shift+<some letter> shortcuts. So the previous default
came with that issue (which itself is a very old bug; see bug #36812).
And it's not obvious that just Alt+Shift is the best choice for a global
shortcut; many users would prefer Ctrl+Shift, CapsLock, or something
else.
Those three reasons make up the background for the changes made in
response to bug #1762952.
>> As regards the console, is there a use case which would be worth
>> to take into consideration where there is a need to switch to a
>> non-latin keyboard layout?
>
> Normal PC usage is impossible without it. Some examples:
>
> # Change directory to Desktop cd "Επιφάνεια εργασίας"
>
> # Edit a file nano Αρχείο.txt
>
> # Set a user's name usermod -c Άλκης alkisg
Those are tasks which I would accomplish with a terminal emulator such
as gnome-terminal, not a TTY console.
But I think the approach I propose (i.e. special case GNOME) may be a
bit complex code wise, and I'm disinclined to propose the actual code
changes. It didn't fall out well last time I tried to change the
console-setup package. :/
So we would need some involvement from Adam or someone else in the
~canonical-foundations team to evaluate whether the idea is sensible and
doable. Pinging some of them on IRC about this bug report might help
moving it forward.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1892014
Title:
18.04.14.7 regression: no alt_shift_toggle in XKBOPTIONS
Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Up to ubuntu-mate-18.04.1.iso, everything was fine. Starting with
18.04.2, XKB_OPTIONS does not contain "alt_shift_toggle" anymore and
we cannot switch the keyboard layout to e.g. Greek using Alt+Shift.
Reading the changelog, I see:
$ ~/source/ubiquity$ git show 786a5325ef
+console-setup (1.178ubuntu6) cosmic; urgency=medium
+
+ * keyboard-configuration.{config,templates}: There is no good default for
+ layout toggling, stop pretending there is. Console users can set one
+ with dpkg-reconfigure or editing /etc/defaults/keyboard (LP: #1762952)
I'm guessing that ubiquity duplicates some code from console-setup,
and LP: #1762952 caused this regression.
To reproduce:
1) Start ubuntu-mate-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
2) Select Ελληνικά (Greek) and start installing Ubuntu using the default
options
3) Right after the keyboard layout step, run:
$ grep XKBOPTIONS /etc/default/keyboard
XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
4) Verify that you can switch to Greek with Alt+Shift
Starting from ubuntu-mate-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso (.1=OK, .2=BAD), we
cannot switch to Greek using Alt+Shift anymore:
$ grep XKBOPTIONS /etc/default/keyboard
XKBOPTIONS="grp_led:scroll"
Does ubiquity really expect the users to run `dpkg-reconfigure
console-setup`?
Note that selecting Greek in the syslinux menu produces the correct
XKBOPTIONS, yet ubiquity overwrites them later on with the wrong ones.
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