Comment 330 for bug 1226962

LibreOffice shortcuts don't work in Hebrew on Ubuntu 16.04

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Simos Xenitellis  <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> @xeron-oskom: Indeed, Super+A/F/M/C/V are not adapted and do not currently
> work with Greek either.
> However, what is working, are those shortcuts that I show in my screenshot
> (Super+W, Super+S).
>
> Here is a screenshot that shows that when you switch to Russian keyboard
> layout, the Unity shortcuts for Super+W and Super+S are adapted
> automatically for Russian.
>
> The way that Super+W and Super+S work, makes me believe that these are not
> hard-coded but dynamic.
> Here is relevant code http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~
> unity-team/unity/trunk/files/head:/shortcuts/
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "unity-shortcuts-russian.png"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1226962/+
> attachment/4865983/+files/unity-shortcuts-russian.png
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226962
>
> Title:
> Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout
>
> Status in aptana-studio-installer:
> New
> Status in Default settings and artwork for Baltix OS:
> New
> Status in LibreOffice:
> Fix Released
> Status in ibus:
> New
> Status in Indicator keyboard:
> Fix Released
> Status in Inkscape:
> New
> Status in Intellij Idea:
> New
> Status in monodevelop:
> New
> Status in Mutter:
> Fix Released
> Status in okular:
> New
> Status in OpenOffice:
> New
> Status in sigram:
> New
> Status in Unity:
> Fix Released
> Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in kdevelop package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in openjdk-7 package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in gnome-settings-daemon source package in Xenial:
> Triaged
> Status in gnome-terminal source package in Xenial:
> Triaged
> Status in kdevelop source package in Xenial:
> Confirmed
> Status in openjdk-7 source package in Xenial:
> Incomplete
> Status in unity source package in Xenial:
> Fix Released
> Status in unity-settings-daemon source package in Xenial:
> In Progress
> Status in gnome-shell package in Fedora:
> Unknown
> Status in openoffice package in Fedora:
> Unknown
>
> Bug description:
> New keyboard layout changer in Ubuntu 13.10 introduce old-new bug. Any
> system or application hotkey witch use char (for example: ctrl+alt+t for
> terminal or ctrl+t for new tab in browser) become unfunctional when
> selected non-latin keyboard layout.
> Hotkeys with F1-12, numbers and other non-character buttons works
> perfectly.
>
> Window manager hotkeys not affected by this bug. All hotkeys in system
> parameters->keyboard->hotkeys->windows works perfect with any keyboard
> layout.
>
> Workaround for some system hotkeys and two layouts (english and non-
> latin): rebind all hotkeys in your local layout. For example instead
> of ctrl+alt+t use ctrl+alt+τ (greek tau). That hotkey still work with
> english layout. If you use english and two different non-latin
> layouts this workaround helps only with one of them.
>
>
> Dear Ubuntu users and developers!
> Please include the following information to your comment about non-latin
> shortcuts problems:
> 1. What Ubuntu version do you have (Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.10 GNOME,
> Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.04 GNOME and so on), upgraded (describe version) or
> clean installed
> 2. What keyboard layout do you have
> 3. What shortcut for keyboard layout switching do you use
> 4. On which session you have problems - that is one from Unity, GNOME
> Shell, GNOME FlashBack/Fallback (Metacity), GNOME FlashBack/Fallback
> (Compiz)
> 5. With which program and its version and origin (Ubuntu repositories,
> PPA, non-deb binary package from some website) you have problems.
>
> By providing this information you can make bug-fixing much simpler and
> may be faster.
>
> ----------
> For other layout switching problems introduced in Ubuntu 13.10 you can
> see bug 1218322.
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