Re: gsettings org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current alternative

[Zan Zellor <zanzellor gmx com>]

That did the trick. Thanks!


On 03/27/2017 03:34 PM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Zan Zellor <zanzellor gmx com> wrote:
> > gsettings org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current 1
> >
> > but it doesn't do anything.
> >
> > Looking through its description using dconf-editor, I see it says that the
> > key is deprecated. Is there any alternative for the current key?
> Right, it doesn't do anything because it's no longer used and that's
> why it says it's deprecated. This runtime state used to be kept in
> sync between gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-shell through that
> gsetting but that had a few drawbacks so the whole functionality was
> migrated to mutter/gnome-shell and so this is only kept internally
> now.
>
> You can still poke at it through the command line since gnome-shell
> exposes a JS eval interface on DBus which has access to all its
> internal objects. Something like:
>
> $ 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()"
>
> should activate your 0th layout and so forth for other indexes.
>
> Rui