CTRL+q to go at the begining instead of CTRL+a

[Damien Cassou]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

In gnome-terminal, when I press CTRL+a, nothing happens. I must press CTRL+q to go at the line beginning.

You have to know that I have two layouts configured in gnome: us and fr. In the french layout, the key 'a' is on key 'q' on an us keyboard.

It is possibly related to bug #23244.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
$ apt-cache policy gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, that works fine here, which keyboard layout are you using? may you test with another user, there's maybe something broken on your configuration.

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

I have just tested with a user created for the test. The bug still appears. I have two layouts configured: 'USA Macintosh' and 'France Alternative'.

When using the 'USA Macintosh' layout and the macbook qwerty keyboard, everything is fine. I can type Ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line.

When using the 'France Alternative' layout with my azerty keyboard, things does not work properly. If I type 'a', the letter 'a' is correctly printed but CTRL+a does not go to the beginning. I have to press CTRL+q. If I type 'q', the letter 'q' is correctly printed.

Why do you mark the priority as low? To me, it is a big problem as I always use shortcuts like this. And I'm probably not the only one.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

This is still a very annoying problem.

[Tom Brown (tomubun4)]

I've noticed this too, albeit in an old version

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 7.10
Release: 7.10

$ apt-cache policy gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 2.18.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.18.2-0ubuntu1

I normally use US English Dvorak and add US English for friends using my laptop. I use the Keyboard Indicator 2.20.0 panel to switch layouts.

It seems like the ctrl keys use the mapping of the first keyboard in the Keyboard Preferences -> Layouts list.

If I have the layouts listed in order dvorak, qwerty and the keyboard indicator says USA then pressing physical_Y displays 'f' and pressing Ctrl + physical_Y prints '^F' in gnome-terminal. If I switch to qwerty using the panel (panel changes to USA_2) physical_Y prints 'y' and Ctrl + physical_Y prints '^F'. Repeating a similar experiment with layouts in order qwerty, dvorak produces the opposite results. The layouts appear to be sorted in the order they are added.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.