Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl-... do not work in many programs

[Aaz]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

When keyboard layouts order is [ru winkeys, us] shortcuts with Ctrl- do not work in at least the following programs:
- OpenOffice
- Pidgin
- Empathy
- InkScape

Hardly found a solution: http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=94620.0 (russian)

As suggested I changed keyboard layouts order to [us, ru winkeys]. Now it works fine.

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Ubuntu 10.10 (but the problem has been here for a long time, probably a year or so)
gnome-control-center 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu2
]

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 520eaaf981c685f3a932c3ea6b98de1c
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Thu Jan 6 14:28:49 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=ru_RU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version. Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

[Aaz (aaz2009)]

Hi, Pedro!

Thank you for your interest in this bug.

Yes, it is still an issue with Natty.

When the layout order [en, ru] and current layout = ru, then Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V and other shortcuts are working fine.
However, When the layout order is reverse [ru, en] and current layout = ru, then Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V and other shortcuts are not working. I have to switch current layout = en to make it work.

It was rather annoying actually. For instance, when in clipboard there is some secret and you chat with someone. Then you want to copy-paste something to the correspondent. You press Ctrl-C somewhere (but it didn't work). Then in the chat program you press Ctrl-Ins (which is working) and immediately press enter. Just to see that you've sent something wrong...

These days I use [en, ru] layout order which doesn't have this issue. However I have to switch to [ru] everytime (because most of the time I obviously use russian layout).

Hope this helps.

P.S. I believe this bug could affect more people. But it is difficult to express it in a "google-way" and the workaround is not straightforward. So that people cannot find or discover both the workaround and this bug description. And they still suffer...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.