The keyboard layouts I add become gray/deactivated. The applet doesn't show any change. The keyboard selected is always English (US). It's the only one that works.

I'm having the same problem using solus MATE hopefully it can be fixed soon.

@o-alquimista
I used the following command as a workaround to the issue.
in the end replace "us,il" with any other languages layouts you want i used "us,il" for both english and hebrew.
also the command enables alt+shift to switch between the languages.

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il

In T2049#41118, @the_mentor wrote:

@o-alquimista
I used the following command as a workaround to the issue.
in the end replace "us,il" with any other languages layouts you want i used "us,il" for both english and hebrew.
also the command enables alt+shift to switch between the languages.

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il

This workaround works. Thanks, the_mentor.

Just to let you know that I did test this on the unstable repository with MATE 1.18 but unfortunately the problem remains.

any updates on this?

@ikey unfortunately it doesn't solve the problem here (at least for T2794)

That's a different issue @kyrios123 - this one is about basic layout switching. which is resolved.

Ok, can T2794 be reopened then ?
Because it was closed and merged with this task.

Nice, I was looking forward to this for my netbook install. Thanks for the great work!

Hi @ikey i've updated my Solus MATE to the latest version and i'm still experiencing this issue.
is there anything specific i need to do to install this fix?

@the_mentor are you on unstable ? If not, you'll have to wait a little longer until it's pushed on the stable repo

@kyrios123 @ikey i can confirm that after installing the latest round of updates this issue is resolved.
Thank you very much for all the amazing hard work !!

Happy to hear it :)