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Keyboard input language

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Hello everyone. I have weird problem with keyboard input. After my os is booted, i can't switch input language in firefox (I can only write EN keyboard although system input language is RU). Terminal and other progeverything works fine. I have debian 10, kernel 4.19.0-8-amd64. Gnome Shell 3.30.2 Cleaning profile folder didn't help(

Hello everyone. I have weird problem with keyboard input. After my os is booted, i can't switch input language in firefox (I can only write EN keyboard although system input language is RU). Terminal and other progeverything works fine. I have debian 10, kernel 4.19.0-8-amd64. Gnome Shell 3.30.2 Cleaning profile folder didn't help(

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How are you changing the input language ? Is that via a keyboard shortcut or via some OS language selector ?

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Keyboard shortcut. I googled this problem and I was led to this topic https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/%5Bmint%5D-firefox-has-a-different-keyboard-layout-than-the-os-itself-4175644537/. That guy had the same problem as I, but there is no solution. And one more thing, switching language works file only after I go to the gnome settings/region and language and change my input sources priority. In that topic somebody proposed to write a script that does it every boot, but I dont think that it's a proper way of solving this problem. Off topic. I'm newbie in linux, so my answers aren't absolutely correct.

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I only use the en-US keyboard layout and if necessary I use the compose key for special (accented) characters.

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Well... I use cyrillic writing script, so it's not my case. ADDED. After some research, I've understood that problem is in my profile.

Modified by Dmitry