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[Alexey Balmashnov <a.balmashnov@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Alexey Balmashnov <a.balmashnov@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Alexey Balmashnov <a.balmashnov@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> El domingo, 24 de abril de 2016 18:16:04 (CEST), Alexey Balmashnov <
>>> a.balmashnov@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>>>
>>>> M10 FHD, got Logitech keyboard + mouse connected via USB-OTG + unifying
>>>> receiver.
>>>>
>>>> Cannot figure out how to switch to alternative keyboard layout, Russian
>>>> in
>>>> my case. There are no settings related to it. Any tips are welcome.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> In OWA-10 you can define the layout of the external keyboard (System
>>> settings -> Language Text). Dont know
>>> if cyrillic is supported.
>>>
>>
>> Aha, found it. Keyboard should be attached. Why not follow on-screen
>> keyboard for languages anf have only switch keys configuration as extra???
>>
>> Still have no idea how to switch between keyboard layouts. Is there a
>> predefined key-combo to do that?
>>
>
> With the help of PaulfraaOSAA on #ubuntu-touch figured out how it "woks
> now":
> One keeps settings with external keyboard layouts open.
> When one needs to switch layout of external keyboard, [s]he "just"
> - switches to layout settings window
> - moves needed layout to top of the list
> - switches back to application window and continues typing...
>
> Well... Very very far from usable, especially for non-latin alphabet based
> languages
>

Just submitted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-system-settings/+bug/1574365

Vote for it if this affects you too.

Cheers,
Alexey