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After some experiments to enable Alt+Shift for layout switching on freshly installed Ubuntu Studio 15.04, the layout switch stopped to work at all. The language indicator changes if I switch by clicking it on the panel, but input is still in English.

How to troubleshoot the problem?

MORE INFO: Ubuntu Studio 15.04 uses Xfce 4.12 Desktop Environment. I was told to disable IBus, because it looks like it doesn't support modifier-only shortcuts like Alt+Shift (https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/1821). So I disabled IBus. In Xfce it is done through Settings -> Personal -> Language Support:

Language Support Menu in Xfce 4.12

However, I couldn't find Text Entry menu shown in @cl-netbox answer in Xfce. Only Keyboard Input Methods which proposes to launch IBus Daemon and exits if you don't agree:

Keyboard Input Methods in Xfce 4.12

So I am stuck with no way to use Russian language on my Ubuntu Studio. Does anybody know how to fix that?

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I need to give credits to @cl-netbox and @Cbhihe for helping me to find the right way. So after disabling IBus language switching thing stopped to work at all, and Settings -> Other -> Keyboard Input Methods menu provided a wrong way to search for layout switching.

The proper place to configure layout with disabled IBus appeared to be in Settings -> Hardware -> Keyboard -> Layout:

Settings -> Hardware -> Keyboard

After opening the window and switching to Layout tab I had to turn off "Use system defaults" flag and then configure the window:

Layout

The list was empty, and adding Russian fixed it. The trick was to select the category to get all keys right, and not one of its children:

Choosing right Russian language

Now I can also use Alt+Shift shortcut. The only missing part is language indicator on the panel, which is a subject of another question.

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