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[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Project changed: unity-settings-daemon => unity-settings-daemon
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315867

Title:
  Don't strip XKB grp

Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “unity-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  unity-settings-daemon => gsd-keyboard-manager.c has an Ubuntu specific patch that strips the grp: part in XKB options:
          if (n_sources < 2 || g_strcmp0 (g_getenv ("XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP"), "Unity") == 0)
                  strip_xkb_option (options, "grp:");

  The original upstream source code is:
          if (n_sources < 2)
                  strip_xkb_option (options, "grp:");

  That causes a problem: we're no longer able to type e.g. Greek in
  TuxPaint, because TuxPaint grabs the keyboard, and u-s-d then doesn't
  see the layout switching shortcut.

  But: if we do revert only that line of the source code to what's in upstream, then we get another problem: that the XKB-defined layout switching shortcut (e.g. Alt+Shift) doesn't update the keyboard indicator in the panel, only the GNOME-defined shortcut (e.g. Win+Space) does.
  To solve this, I think u-s-d needs to handle ISO_Next_Group. I don't know if that part exists upstream, but I do know that it works fine in Fedora 20.

  After solving this bug, a tiny issue will remain: that Alt+Shift
  inside keyboard-grabbing applications won't update the keyboard
  indicator. Upstream GNOME doesn't want patches for that and may try to
  solve it in SDL, but the other 2 issues described above ^ are Ubuntu-
  specific.

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