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What I want is to be able to press:

Ctrl + Shift + 1 - switch to English keyboard layout
Ctrl + Shift + 2 - switch to Hebrew keyboard layout
Ctrl + Shift + 3 - switch to Russian(Phonetic) keyboard layout

I've seen similar questions already asked here, but only answers I saw used setxkbmap which breaks the UI keyboard layout selector, which is something undesired.

Thanks for any help.

lambda23
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Svarog
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In 2024, neither gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current, nor gdbus call … org.gnome.Shell.Eval …" are working. They are deprecated. You could try to resurrect the Eval with ramottamado/eval-gjs, but it is unsafe as well.

So, I've made my own GNOME Shell Extension and I'm sharing it with the world: Shyriiwook (also available @ GitHub: madhead/shyriiwook).

This is a very simple, minimalist extension. It doesn't have any GUI. After installing it, a new D-Bus interface would be exposed in your GNOME Shell session. You could query it for the current configuration or call a method to activate the desired layout:

$ gdbus introspect \
    --session \
    --dest org.gnome.Shell \
    --object-path /me/madhead/Shyriiwook \
    --only-properties

node /me/madhead/Shyriiwook {
  interface me.madhead.Shyriiwook {
    properties:
      readonly as availableLayouts = ['us', 'de', 'jp'];
      readonly s currentLayout = 'us';
  };
};


$ gdbus call 

    --session 

    --dest org.gnome.Shell 

    --object-path /me/madhead/Shyriiwook 

    --method me.madhead.Shyriiwook.activate "de"

This is easily scriptable, and you can even put this command raw into a custom shortcut under the "Settings" → "Keyboard" → "Keyboard Shortcuts" → "View and Customise Shortcuts" → "Custom Shortcuts".

madhead
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If you are using Ubuntu you can set the default "Keyboard Layout" settings to change between keyboard layouts. However you cannot use the keyboard shortcuts you have listed. I do not know the way to do that.

If you open the system settings menu navigate to keyboard layout. Once open you will see your current keyboard layouts. If you click options and select "Key(s) to change layout, you can select which combo to change the layout. Some of the combos are

Alt+Caps Lock

Alt+Ctrl

Alt+Shift

Both Alt keys together, etc.

However thers is no way to set your own custom shortcuts. I attempted to see if there was possible a terminal code but there is no manual entry for Keyboard Layout settings, such as there is for other programs like Firefox: man firefoxIf there were you could easy create a custom key combo to run the command depending on which layout you want.

Additionally there is no indicator of which layout you've switched too and the only way to check is to type something. But it does seem to go in order of the way the layouts are listed.

Screen shot of the keyboard layout options menu

I hope that helps you.

snoop
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Weylin Schreck
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The following solution works for Ubuntu 19.10.

gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell --method org.gnome.Shell.Eval  "imports.ui.status.keyboard.getInputSourceManager().inputSources[0].activate()"

Taken from here.

So just add key bindings you like with the index in the above command modified as desired (0 - your first layout, 1 - your second layout, and so on).

RobinBobin
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  1. Open "System Settings" > "Keyboard" > "Shortcuts" > "Custom Shortcuts"
  2. Press "+" to create a new one

  3. Add any name you like and the following command for the first layout: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current 0

  4. Press "Apply"

  5. Press on "Disabled" in right column for your key mapping
  6. Assign your hot key

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Alexey
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