Unity shortcuts ignore current keyboard layout

[TenLeftFingers]

With normal QWERTY keyboard layout (ie) on Ubuntu, the keyboard shortcut to launch a terminal is CTRL + ALT + T.

When I change to USA/Dvorak, I should expect to press CTRL + ALT + K on my physical keyboard, as 'K' corresponds to 'T' in Dvorak.

However, I actually have to use the old QWERTY key combination with my Dvorak layout, which would print as CTRL + ALT + K, to launch a terminal.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.8.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Tue May 1 19:27:33 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

From other installations displaying the same problem with different keyboard layouts, I can say that the issue is that the CTRL + ALT + ? key combination is always expected by Unity to be in the default keyboard layout.

[Sean Patrick Santos (quantheory)]

I have replicated this bug, but in the opposite direction. I set up this system with Programmer's Dvorak. If I switch to QWERTY, I have to use Ctrl-Alt-K to open a terminal, even though the "K" key really is a K, and the "T" key really is T. So if someone else uses this system with QWERTY, the keyboard shortcuts seem to be all in the wrong places for no reason.

I wasn't sure if this was a Unity problem at first, but it turns out that the Super-S shortcut does this as well (and Super-S is definitely listed as a Unity shortcut). Furthermore, Super-S, unlike the terminal hotkey, can't be remapped, so QWERTY users would be stuck with Super-; as the shortcut on my system (but it's not like, in my case, there actually are QWERTY users that care).

[Mark Janes (portlandlinuxengineer)]

This is happening to me as well. I use dvorak and have US keyboard enabled as a second layout. All alt key combinations are in the US layout, regardless of which layout is selected.

I installed pangolin by upgrading ocelot.

This bug makes emacs unusable for dvorak typists.

I have seen similar issues with gnome-terminal on previous releases, but it was limited to that application, which could be avoided.

[Sorbing (svbutsenko)]

Yet to solve the problem? This is a critical error!

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

There are more commenters than there are people "affected" by the bug. Could everyone click the '''this bug affects me''' link at the top of the page?

[Sorbing (svbutsenko)]

Did. Thanks, did not know.

[bAjDa (angrybee)]

have same problem in gnome-shell (using russian/english layouts)