<Super> key opens Activities overview only when the XKB layout used by the first source in the list of input sources is active

[Falling Snowdin]

Using the Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Beta version.

The ibus-unikey package is at version 0.6.1-1.1build1

What should happen: I should be able to press the Meta key regardless of input sources chosen.

What happened: When Vietnamese (Unikey) is chosen as the input source, the Meta key cannot be pressed.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

With "Meta" key, do you possibly mean the <AltGr> / <Right Alt> key?

I see in bug #1872319 that you use the "English (Colemak)" layout (where <Righ Alt> is used by default to access 3:rd and 4:th level symbols), but the underlying layout used by ibus-unikey is "English (US)" (which does not make use of <Right Alt>).

[Falling Snowdin (falling-snowdin)]

About the 'Meta' key, I'm mentioning the Windows/Super key, the button you use to open up GNOME Activities. The button is blocked whenever I switch to Unikey.

Thanks for looking into this as imo this is an important usability issue.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for clarifying. But that seems not to be an ibus-unikey issue.

If you change it so "Vietnamese (Unikey)" is the first source in the list of input sources (see attached screenshot), <Super> works as expected for Unikey. But then it doesn't work for "English (Colemak)"...

So I think this is some kind of gnome-shell issue; changing the affected package accordingly and changing the bug summary as well. Since you still have the option to click on "Activities", I think the importance of this bug is low.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1871913, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.