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I am used to changing keyboard layouts with Alt+Space, and worked fine until I upgraded to 14.04. I set it in the Text Entry control panel:

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but it doesn't work. I suspect that there is a conflict with some other binding, but I cant find it in dconf. How can I fix this?

I use GNOME (boooo unity!), if this changes anything.

yohbs
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  • Alt+Space is the shortcut that opens the window menu (the same menu that is opened when you click on the title bar). –  Oct 23 '14 at 11:02
  • @BrunoNova I disabled that – yohbs Oct 23 '14 at 11:55
  • Maybe this helps: How to use Alt+Shift to switch keyboard layouts? – fret Nov 12 '14 at 20:58
  • You may want to try setting this through the "gnome-tweak-tool", but I'm not sure it will work. I think there's a problem with layout swapping in gnome. That's the main reason I use unity instead. The best I could get with gnome is switching layouts once, and then the shortcut would stop working... – yaron160 Nov 13 '14 at 06:02
  • Layout switching in Ubuntu gnome is definitely very buggy (and like that since years). See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1218322 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-keyboard/+bug/1240198 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1246272 ;-| I would be not surprised at all if something new is appearing. – Rmano Nov 13 '14 at 13:06

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AltSpace is the standard keyboard shortcut to activate a window since IBM OS/2

SuperSpace is the standard keyboard shortcut to change keyboard input methods in Ubuntu

To switch both around do a:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings activate-window-menu "['<Super>space']"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-input-source "['<Alt>space']"

I hope you're the only one using this machine, as it's a dirty trick to play on your old colleagues who still remember being excited about OS/2 coming to the market... ;)

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