Elementary OS Loki: changing keyboard layout with Super+Space

(Sorry for my russian english 😸)

Today i installed Elementary OS 0.4 Loki and was a bit stunned by fact, that i unable to set “Super+Space” (aka Win+Space) as next input source hotkey. Here’s several steps to make it work:

At first, install some required packages:

sudo apt install dconf-tools xdotool

Then, we should disable Slingshot opening by Super+Space

Open dconf-editor and find org->gnome->desktop->wm->keybindings

Find panel-main-menu and replace <Super>space with something different. I just removed Super+Space hotkey from there lefting only Alt+F2, so now it looks like:

['<Alt>F2']

Then, create new custom hotkey

Open Keyboard in Settings app and create custom hotkey attached to any key combination (we cannot use Super+Space from this window, so we’ll change it later with dconf-editor) with this command:

xdotool key --clearmodifiers Alt+Shift && xdotool key --clearmodifiers ''

Where Alt+Shift is your current hotkey to change layout

And finally, we should set our new hotkey to Super+Space

Open dconf-editor and navigate there: org->gnome->settings-daemon->plugins->media-keys->custom-keybindings->customN

Where N is the number of your custom hotkey (just check all or latest one)

And change binding to this:

<Super>space

Now you can change your keyboard layout by pressing Super+Space! 😻