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Ebram Shehata
Asked: 2018-05-02 13:15:02 +0800 CST

"Keyboard Layout Handler" is not working properly on Lubuntu 18.04

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Here is what I did: enter image description here

  • I disabled "Keep system layouts" in settings.
  • Added my secondary language (Arabic) to keyboard layouts.
  • Modified the layout change keys to: "Alt+Shift" and "Left Alt+Left Shift".

My (right) "Alt+Shift" keys successfully change the language from English to Arabic but never back! Left Alt+Left Shift are working just fine.

Being right-handed I really need to get the right Alt+Shift keys to successfully swap between the two input languages.

OS: Lubuntu 18.04 x64 - I clean-installed it today.

keyboard-layout shortcut-keys lubuntu 18.04

1 Answers

  1. When the Arabic layout is effective, Right Alt is defined (by default) as the key to access 3:rd and 4:th level symbols. That's probably the reason why you can't use it to switch back to English.

    You have two options. Either

    • start using some other shortcut for switching layouts, or
    • explicitly define some other key but Right Alt to access 3:rd and 4:th level symbols.
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