Files ignores keyboard layout for Ctrl-V shortcut

[Vivien Valentine]

This is a weird one. Ctrl-V doesn't work when I'm on a dvorak keyboard layout. Ctrl-C does. To paste stuff I have to use Ctrl-K (the K is where the V would be in a qwerty keyboard).

I might have thought this was intended (there are some dvorak keyboard shortcut options that make it so the shortcuts are the same on the physical keyboard as they would be on qwerty regardless of what the actual keycode you are sending is), but Ctrl-J (J is where C is on QWERTY) does not copy.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

Since March Files has used hardware keycodes to identify when the Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V and Ctrl-X have been pressed, in order to cope with internationalized keyboard layouts, which would explain this bug if the Dvorak keyboard generates different hardware keycodes for the V key (but the same for the C key).

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

OK, I have a fix for this now.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

By the way, do you have similar problems with any other Files keyboard shortcuts e.g. Ctrl-a (select all) , Ctrl-n (new window), Ctrl-f (search) etc ?

[Vivien Valentine (vivien.valentine)]

As far as I can tell the only shortcut that does not work is Ctrl-V, everything else I tried works as expected.

[3Nex (im3nex)]

I am having this issue, except Ctrl+K does not work in my case. With US qwerty layout pasting works fine, with programming dvorak it doesn't, and with swedish dvorak it doesn't.

I am running the newest everything, a fresh install of Loki and I ran a manual reinstall of pantheon-files.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

Hi 3Nex, please could you clarify whether you are using special hardware for those layouts or are using standard US/UK keyboard hardware with an overlay on the keys?