Comment 276 for bug 1226962

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) wrote : Re: [Bug 1226962] Re: Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout

See http://www.whizzy.org/2015/09/big-bug-bonanza-16-04-lts/ for a sprint
to fix issues in Ubuntu (targeting 16.04).
Since there are patches for this and these patches work, it is important to
get the issue fixed during the sprint.

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:49 AM, OrDuek <email address hidden> wrote:

> attente -
> Your PPA works great. I'm using alt+left Shift with no problems.
> Thank you very much.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226962
>
> Title:
> Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout
>
> Status in aptana-studio-installer:
> New
> Status in Default settings and artwork for Baltix OS:
> New
> Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
> Fix Released
> Status in ibus:
> New
> Status in Indicator keyboard:
> Fix Released
> Status in Inkscape:
> New
> Status in monodevelop:
> New
> Status in mutter:
> Fix Released
> Status in okular:
> New
> Status in OpenOffice:
> New
> Status in sigram:
> New
> Status in Unity:
> Fix Released
> Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in openjdk-7 package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in gnome-shell package in Fedora:
> Unknown
> Status in openoffice package in Fedora:
> Unknown
>
> Bug description:
> New keyboard layout changer in Ubuntu 13.10 introduce old-new bug. Any
> system or application hotkey witch use char (for example: ctrl+alt+t for
> terminal or ctrl+t for new tab in browser) become unfunctional when
> selected non-latin keyboard layout.
> Hotkeys with F1-12, numbers and other non-character buttons works
> perfectly.
>
> Window manager hotkeys not affected by this bug. All hotkeys in system
> parameters->keyboard->hotkeys->windows works perfect with any keyboard
> layout.
>
> Workaround for some system hotkeys and two layouts (english and non-
> latin): rebind all hotkeys in your local layout. For example instead
> of ctrl+alt+t use ctrl+alt+τ (greek tau). That hotkey still work with
> english layout. If you use english and two different non-latin
> layouts this workaround helps only with one of them.
>
>
> Dear Ubuntu users and developers!
> Please include the following information to your comment about non-latin
> shortcuts problems:
> 1. What Ubuntu version do you have (Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.10 GNOME,
> Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.04 GNOME and so on), upgraded (describe version) or
> clean installed
> 2. What keyboard layout do you have
> 3. What shortcut for keyboard layout switching do you use
> 4. On which session you have problems - that is one from Unity, GNOME
> Shell, GNOME FlashBack/Fallback (Metacity), GNOME FlashBack/Fallback
> (Compiz)
> 5. With which program and its version and origin (Ubuntu repositories,
> PPA, non-deb binary package from some website) you have problems.
>
> By providing this information you can make bug-fixing much simpler and
> may be faster.
>
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> For other layout switching problems introduced in Ubuntu 13.10 you can
> see bug 1218322.
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