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Switching language settings made by Tweaks tool (gnome-tweak-tool) like described in accepted answer here.

After performing update to release version by

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

language switching by Alt + Shift stopped working. How to fix it?

Related question: How to have Alt+Shift shortcut for language switching and be able to use other shortcuts that contain Alt+Shift combination keys?

Anton Samokat
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    This is another of the myriad bugs in Wayland. Select normal non-Wayland (i.e. Xorg) Ubuntu session during login. – FedKad May 09 '22 at 14:00
  • @FedKad I also noticed after moving from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 that temperature of working processor got a bit higher. Probably the reason also because of Wayland. – Anton Samokat May 09 '22 at 14:22
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    The rise in temperature, CPU, and memory consumption is probably due to tracker. You can Google "ubuntu disable tracker 22.04" to remove it. – FedKad May 09 '22 at 14:45
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    As @FedKad mentioned, this is most likely a bug. Probably bug #1956916. Please feel free to add observations to that bug report, if you think they may be helpful to the investigation. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson May 09 '22 at 15:28
  • I confirm that as @FedKas said there are no problems with switching language under Ubuntu Xorg. – Anton Samokat May 10 '22 at 10:05

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Execute the following line by line in terminal on Ubuntu 22 LTS:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-input-source "['<Shift>Alt_L']"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-input-source-backward "['<Alt>Shift_L']"

Open Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts (View and Customise Shortcuts) > Typing to confirm changes.

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Source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1956916/comments/38

igor
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Like in recommended setup:

  • Launch Tweaks tool
  • Go to Keyboard & Mouse section.
  • Click on the Additional Layout Options. A new window should pop up.
  • Look for Switching to another layout and expand it.

Here uncheck all checked options. Check Alt+Shift option again. Leave only one this option. Or only Ctrl+Shift if you prefer to use it.

After this Alt + Shift started working for me but in top right corner of the screen there was no information about corresponding switch - seems to bug introduced in Ubuntu 22.04. In Ubuntu 20.04 this function worked fine.

Win + Space also works normally (with updating of corresponding information about current language in top right corner) even if unchecked in Tweeks.

Anton Samokat
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    fw up on the bug in Ubuntu 22.04: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1956916 As a temporary workaround, use a Super(Win)+Space shortcut in layouts (multiple can be used, but Alt + Shift won't be reflected as input indicator change) – diman82 May 26 '22 at 09:24
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    You solved my long-time problem with ubuntu 22.04 – Hosein Remezan Mar 01 '23 at 18:30
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  1. Use gnome-tweaks to set shortcut
  2. For Ubuntu 22.04: Open /etc/gdm3/custom.conf and uncomment "WaylandEnable=false" than save it and reboot. This step makes layout indication work. (and xdotool too...)
Serj
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Look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1956916/comments/38

In short:
Use dconf editor, navigate to org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings.switch-input-source and set it to '<Alt>Shift_L'

Peter Kese
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Here it is for Alt-Shift / Shift-Alt on both keyboard sides

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-input-source "['<Alt>Shift_L', '<Shift>Alt_L', '<Alt>Shift_R', '<Shift>Alt_R']"
ololoye
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