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I have 5 keyboard layouts in total: English US, English Colemak, Russian, Japanese Microsoft IME, Japanese Google IME.

Today I've finally updated the system after a month or two of postponing it, and layout switching behaviour changed completely.

Before: pressing Ctrl+Shift changed language (to the last used layout), in my case it would cycle through English Colemak - Russian - Japanese Google IME.

Now: pressing Ctrl+Shift changes between English US and Russian. Japanese is skipped completely, and if I switch to English US with Ctrl+Shift, then switch to English Colemak with Alt+Shift, then switch to Russian with Ctrl+Shift, the next Ctrl+Shift will bring me back to English US layout.

I can't set Colemak as the default, as it is considered a "keyboard" inside the English US "language", and I can't delete the US layout (although I remember that at some point, maybe a year or more ago, I did exactly this, and it was restored with future update). I also can't delete Japanese Microsoft IME, as it is a "language", and Google IME is "keyboard" inside it.

So I'm forced to either cycle through 5 layouts with Win+Space, or switch twice to get to my preferred Colemak layout - with Japanese being unavailable through Ctrl+Shift.

How can I restore previous behaviour?

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  • Strange. Ctrl+Shift since always changed keyboard layouts within the current language only (link). You must have had some application controlling the keyboard for you. Question: Which Windows version have you updated and to what?
    – harrymc
    Commented Jun 13, 2021 at 20:26
  • Current OS Build is 19042.985, not sure what I updated from. Regarding Ctrl+Shift switching between the languages - might be that I swapped the shortcuts. Just tested it - Alt+Shift switches layouts within the language, Ctrl+Shift switches between languages, albeit only as described above.
    – XNRL
    Commented Jun 13, 2021 at 21:17
  • Open Settings > Time & Language > Language. Below "Preferred languages", do you find a button labelled "Group related languages"? If yes, click it.
    – harrymc
    Commented Jun 14, 2021 at 7:59
  • No, there's no button "Group related languages". However, I managed to make Colemak the default layout by Settings > Time & Language > Language > Keyboard > Override for default input method. Still can't choose Japanese, even by Alt + Space, it just selects Russian (the second choice). Removed/added Japanese, reinstalled Google IME, rebooted multiple times, still no joy.
    – XNRL
    Commented Jun 15, 2021 at 12:38
  • I also tried adding Chinese and Spanish to the list of languages. They installed correctly, but I can't switch to them either, although they are present in the list when pressing Alt + Space.
    – XNRL
    Commented Jun 15, 2021 at 13:28

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