Cannot change default setting in switch-input-source

Allegedly, you can change the keyboard shortcut for switch-input-source.

I find the combination of Alt-Shift_L awkward to type, and want to change it to Alt-Shift_R.

I have tried this via dconf-editor AND with this command:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-input-source "['<Alt>Shift_R']

That command completely disabled keyboard switching, and I had to go back into dconf-editor and re-enable the default Alt-ShiftL.

Any ideas?

The default setting for this in my installation is:
['<Super>space', 'XF86Keyboard']

I use xorg, not wayland - wayland doesn’t want to work in VM for me.

Why not use the same graphical dconf-editor to set/change it which you used to reset it?

Perhaps the shortcut is already taken by another function?

It could also be that you made a typo as above - the closing " is missing at the end of the line there.

dconf-editor will not accept any changes. It errors when I try to save the change.

Unfortunately the setting change I pasted above did NOT lack the closed quote in the terminal, so that’s not the source of the problem.

All I can say is that I can use the graphical tool dconf-editor to set this keyboard shortcut without receiving any error.
But I don’t have other input sources - for me it does nothing.
Can’t help further.