Impossible to type a decimal point

[Gaëtan de Menten]

Binary package hint: gcalctool

I can't seem to type a decimal point in the calculator. There are several workaround to get one (click on the corresponding button, hit enter to get the trailing zeroes and then edit the decimal part) but this renders the calculator almost unusable anyway...

And no, my "." key is not broken.

I recently upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy and never noticed the problem before, so I guess this was introduced in Hardy.

It might be also worth mentioning that I live in Belgium and have configured the appropriate keyboard layout, which means I have to hit shift to be able to enter a decimal point and it might be that gcalctool totally ignores the shift key. I just noticed it ignores the CAPSLOCK state, so that seem plausible. I find it barely believable, but this option might be worth investigating...

Not sure this can help, but here is the output of "locale":

ged@plaf:~/ > locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 12 09:39:30 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gcalctool
Package: gcalctool 5.22.3-0ubuntu0.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: gcalctool
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, that works fine for me i don't get the issue decimal points works fine with the mouse (click on the . button) and with the keyboard, do you get the same with another new user created on your system? thanks.

[Gaëtan de Menten (gdementen)]

I do get the same problem with another user on the same machine, and even on my other computer (a desktop computer). Some (possibly) interesting facts I discovered since the initial bug report:
- the "." key *in the numeric pad* on the Desktop computer works fine.
- the "." key in the "emulated numpad (Fn key + xxx)" of my laptop works fine.
- Using the French locale it works fine (but keep in mind that in the French locale, the decimal separator is a comma "," and not a dot, and one doesn't need shift to type one).

[Gaëtan de Menten (gdementen)]

Changing to confirmed, in the hope to make somebody react...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

please do not confirm your own reports, someone else having the issue should do it. setting it to new, since i cannot confirm that behavior.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Still an issue? Nobody else has confirmed the bug you seems tobe the only one having it, probably this more like a broken user setup rather than a bug per se. thanks.

[Gaëtan de Menten (gdementen)]

Yes, still an issue. And it's still present in Intrepid. And I confirmed it with different computers. Maybe not many people with non-querty keyboards have their system in English.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could you send it upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org since you're having the issue? thanks in advance.

[daspooky (daspooky)]

I confirmed this bug. I'm having the exact same issue in Ubuntu Intrepid.

[daspooky (daspooky)]

And I would like to add that I'm using a Belgian Azerty keyboard.

[Giovanni Rapagnani (matteo666)]

I also confirm this bug on Hardy. My locales are set to en_GB.UTF-8 and my keyboard configured to belgian azerty.

[Gaëtan de Menten (gdementen)]

FWIW, I've reported it upstream as: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574358,
But the bug was already fixed in the new version of gnome (and thus in upcoming Jaunty).

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks, marking this as fixed then and linking the report for future references, thanks all.

[glavkos (glavkos)]

I have a similar bug ....It is impossible to use button 9 on the numeric layout

glavkos@glavkos-laptop:~$ locale
LANG=el_GR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="el_GR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="el_GR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="el_GR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="el_GR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="el_GR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="el_GR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="el_GR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="el_GR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="el_GR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="el_GR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="el_GR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="el_GR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

system: Ubuntu Karmic i386

Any idea about that bug ?