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The default keyboard shortcut for switching keyboard layouts,  "Both Alt
keys together", never works right, and most of the time it doesn't work
at all.

In fact, until today, in each and every Ubuntu version starting from
5.04, on at least 4 completely different hardware configuration, it had
never, ever worked for me at all, not once.  I tried this combination
with every fresh install, and it never worked.

But today, as I was filing this bug while booted into Lucid Lynx 10.4
Beta 2, something just short of a miracle happened.  I pressed both Alt
keys together and the layout switched from USA to Rus!!  ZOMG!!11
Excited, I pressed Alt-Alt again, but this time nothing happened.  I
switched back to the USA layout by clicking on the keyboard indicator,
and again I could switch USA -> Rus by pressing Alt-Alt, but not back.

I fiddled some more, and suddenly it stopped working.  Pressing Alt-Alt
didn't do anything anymore.

And then it started working again (still one way only).  And then it
stopped working again.

(As a side note, I took care to press the left Alt key first;  RAlt
followed by LAlt never works)

The behavior of the Alt-Alt combo seems to depend on what layouts you
have installed in Keyboard Preferences -> Layouts.  As I mentioned
above, when the English (USA) and Russian (Russia) layouts are enabled,
it *may* work for switching USA to Rus, but never back.

If I add USA, Bulgarian and Russian, Alt-Alt will (that is, may) switch
from USA to Bgr, but not Brg->Rus nor Rus->USA.

You can add other layouts, say Greek, and add other shortcuts (like Alt-
Space), and it'll produce a different effect each time, but it never
works fully.

It's worth repeating that Alt-Alt is the *default* keyboard layout
shortcut.   So in a default installation of Ubuntu localized for Russia,
switching layouts from the keyboard will be *impossible* until the user
finds the "Keys to change layout" setting.

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Keyboard layout switching with "Both Alt keys together" broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565365
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