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gnome-terminal package

  1. Bug #1292113
  2. Comment #33

Comment 33 for bug 1292113

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Marco Ceresa (ceresa) wrote :

I found what it seems to be a breakthrough on this issue. I hope it does not only relate to my case.

I use a Colemak layout. Compared to the standard QWERTY, in Colemak the T is where the F is in QWERTY, and where T is in QWERTY Colemak has a G. See http://colemak.com/wiki/images/e/ef/Colemak_fingers.png for a visual comparison.

Well, what do you know? ctrl-alt-t does not work, but ctrl-alt-g (which is the qwerty shortcut for ctrl-alt-t) behaves as expected, firing up the terminal.

It looks like the package responsible for the CTRL-ALT-T shortcut still uses the default keyboard layout, not picking up the new layout (Colemak in my case) at startup. Perhaps a loading order bug?

Can you guys test it and see if that's the case for you too?