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yohbs
Asked: 2014-10-24 02:22:10 +0800 CST

Layout change with Alt+space on 14.04

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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.

14.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    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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