Keyboard shortcuts not working on Ubuntu 14.10 and 15.04

[Christopher Mann]

Keyboard shortcuts do not work. E.g. F1 for quick compile, Strg+F for searching

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: texmaker 4.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Oct 27 11:01:56 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-18 (191 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: texmaker
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-25 (1 days ago)

[Christopher Mann (christophermann-r)]

Forget to say, that this is a regression as it was working fine just two days ago with 14.04 before the update to 14.10.

[Daniel Oehry (daniel-oehry)]

Same Problem here. According to https://code.google.com/p/texmaker/issues/detail?id=1301 there is a problem with the qt5.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Severin Wünsch (sk1d)]

This does not affect me on lubuntu 14.10.

[Alexander Buchner (alexander-buchner)]

Same problem here.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Davide (dspinell)]

Same problem here. Ubuntu 14.10 64bit fresh install

[khalismur (abmscheer-deactivatedaccount)]

Same problem with Ubuntu 14.10 64bit and kernel 3.17.4.
Texmaker 4.3, Qt 5.3.0, Poppler 0.26.2

Worked before with Ubuntu 14.04...

[Sergey Skripnick (eyerediskin)]

Custom shortcut is working few seconfs after adding, but stop working then.

[Alexander Buchner (alexander-buchner)]

What's the status of this bug? It's now 4 months old.

[khalismur (abmscheer-deactivatedaccount)]

As I wrote in November, on this system: it did not work:
Ubuntu 14.10 64bit
Kernel 3.17.4
Texmaker 4.3, Qt 5.3.0, Poppler 0.26.2

As of recently it is working again on this system:
Ubuntu 14.10 64bit
Kernel 3.17.8
Texmaker 4.4.1, Qt 4.8.6, Poppler 0.26

[Alexander Buchner (alexander-buchner)]

Texmaker is near unusable without keyboard shortcuts.
When will this bug be fixed?

[khalismur (abmscheer-deactivatedaccount)]

Well for me it has been fixed. All I did was to desinstall texmaker and texlive, update kernel and reinstall the newest software version.

[Alexander Buchner (alexander-buchner)]

@khalismur
The versions of the packages you mentioned in #12 are not available in the stable repositories. From which repositories did you install these packages?

Therefore, I think, many people with the default installation are affected by this bug.

[Davide (dspinell)]

@ Alexander Buchner

Version 4.4.1 is available from the developer web page. It is based on Qt4 and it works very well for me (Ubuntu 14.10 64bit, TexLive from repositories).

[Alexander Buchner (alexander-buchner)]

Ok, I understand. But installing software that is not in the repositories can't be the solution.
People are expecting to get their software fixed within the repositories. What do the people do who don't read this bug report? They also deserve a fix, don't they?

[Davide (dspinell)]

I agree, and in this case the solution would be as simple as including the new version in the repositories

[Andreas (andreas-weiden)]

Which has apperently still not been done another month later...

[Lukas (lukas.s)]

I can confirm that shortcuts in the repository version does not work on Ubuntu 14.10.

My solution:
- uninstall Texmaker
- Download latest version from http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/download.html#linux and install it

For me it was not neccessary to uninstall texlive.

[Alexander Buchner (alexander-buchner)]

This bug still exists in Ubuntu 15.04.

[Tim Peeters (tpeeters)]

For me since recently (I don't know since when exactly because I do not use this laptop a lot) a bunch of system shortcuts (System settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts) stopped working on an Acer C720 (running Ubuntu 15.04).

Some shortcuts do now work for me. I have, for example SHIFT+F7 to increase display brightness, and ALT+CTRL+T to launch a terminal and SHIFT+BACKSPACE = DELETE. These don't work. Some others, like ALT+CTRL+Cursor keys to move between virtual desktops for example work fine.

[Tim Peeters (tpeeters)]

Sorry my comment above was about system shortcuts, not texmaker. But they might be related?

[khalismur (abmscheer-deactivatedaccount)]

They are related apparently. All that has to be done is for the repo version of texmaker to be updated!

[Daniel Oehry (daniel-oehry)]

It is not so simple: Apparently there are two different possible solutions:

1) The problem with the shortcuts began with the change to qt5. If Texmaker for Ubuntu is compiled with qt4, there are no problems. This is, why the packages from http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/download.html are working.

2) The problem is not in the Texmaker-sources, but in the qt5-sources from Ubuntu. It has to be fixed there.

[khalismur (abmscheer-deactivatedaccount)]

Well I'm clearly not familiar with Ubuntu bug updates then, thanks for the information, Daniel.

This has been around for more than six months now and is labelled as "high importance" but still needs a fix. Is this common?

[Andrea Fernandes da Fonseca (andreafdaf)]

Same problem here. CTRL-ALT(-SHIFT)-direction works, CTRL-ATL-T for terminal doesn't, ALT-tab works, ALT-SHIFT-tab doesn't... strangely enough if I change terminal to CTRL-ALT-N it works, it also works with CTRL-ALT-D, but if I try to set "Hide all windows" to CTRL-ALT-D it doesn't work.

SIDENOTE: It doesn't happen all the time but when it happens the "shutdown animation" flickers when I shutdown. Things seem to be related, every time Shortcuts stop working and I restart I see the flicker, when things are working fine I never see the flicker

15.04 - 3.19.0-16-generic #16-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 30 16:09:58 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Was working fine on 14.04

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[RobertFM (robert123m)]

Same problem here.
The short-cuts stop working after resuming from standby AND logging in to TTY2.
When switching to TTY7 the short-cuts work in the login screen, but after logging in they don't work any more.
When this happens, shutdown/restart/logging out takes ages as well.

[RobertFM (robert123m)]

Also on my asus zenbook my brightness keys fn+f5 and fn+f6 are the only fn keys working. They still change the brightness bus there is no pop-up icon showing the brightness level. This does appear before the first system standby.

[Henrique Ferrolho (henriqueferrolho)]

I had the same problem and this solved it, shortcuts work again: http://askubuntu.com/a/624757/292615

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[RobertFM (robert123m)]

The short-cuts seem to work in tty7 but the gnome-shell is running in tty2.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[AtomLaw (hmkmota)]

Ideally make use of the following program CompizConfig Settings Manager. It
solves most settings issues related to GUI and desktop issues.
I got my screen back within 2 minutes.
On 15 Jun 2015 20:40, "Launchpad Bug Tracker" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
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> Title:
> Keyboard shortcuts not working on Ubuntu 14.10 and 15.04
>
> Status in Unity:
> New
> Status in eclipse package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in qtbase package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in texmaker package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Keyboard shortcuts do not work. E.g. F1 for quick compile, Strg+F for
> searching
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
> Package: texmaker 4.3-1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
> Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: Unity
> Date: Mon Oct 27 11:01:56 2014
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-18 (191 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64
> (20140417)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=de_DE
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: texmaker
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-25 (1 days ago)
>
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[Lamberto (lambertodellelce)]

I solved the problem by removing the package appmenu-qt5

[Juan (juanguijarroferreiro)]

I confirm that removing appmenu-qt5 package solves the issue.

[Ladislav Gál (ladislav4gal)]

I noticed that this happen to me when i switch graphic cards (using catalyst) from my AMD HD Radeon 6770M to my integrated Intel graphic card. When i switch back it is all good and working.

[Yanick Nedderhoff (yanicknedderhoff)]

I as well confirm that removing appmenu-qt5 package solves the issue.

[Bob Rubbens (bobrubbens)]

After purging appmenu-qt5 my shortcuts (terminal shortcut and media keys as well) were working again.

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thanks everyone! This has been triaged and is in progress, see bug #1380702. I'm marking this as a duplicate of that one so we can merge the conversation over there. Please respond with future comments at bug #1380702

[baiyu (baiyu)]

I also confirm that the issue is solved by removing the appmenu-qt5 app.

[stawo (iscrizioni-acquisti)]

I also confirm that the issue is solved by removing the appmenu-qt5 app.

SO: Ubuntu 16.04

[Sounak (sdey)]

I also confirm that the issue is solved by removing the appmenu-qt5 app.

[Damien Lecan (dlecan)]

I also confirm that the issue is solved by removing the appmenu-qt5 app. BUT Texmaker windows are horrible.

SO: Ubuntu 16.04

[Christophe (touil1976)]

If you don't want to remove the appmenu-qt5 app, another workaround to make the shortcuts work again is to launch texmaker without global menu (that is with the menu bar inside texmaker window).
You can do this by simply changing the way texmaker is loaded (using alacarte for example) from
texmaker %F
to
env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= texmaker %F

That works perfectly on my computer at least.

[Henokh Lugo (cruxmania)]

I also confirm that the issue is solved by removing the appmenu-qt5 app. BUT the toolbar of Texmaker on Ubuntu 16.04 are horrible.

[Om (omyadav89)]

Thats right. Problem of non-functioning keyboard shortcuts for Texmaker is resolved by removing appmenu-qt5, but no one wrote the command. So here u go, open terminal and run these commands one by one, log out system and login and u will b redy to rock.

sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt5
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove appmenu-qt5

[Vitor Hugo Bellotto Zago (vitorhugobz)]

I confirm the same problem using Texmaker. I solved the issue
removing appmenu-qt5, just like Om stated before.

[Anthony Durity (anthony-durity)]

I also confirm that removing appmenu-qt5 package solves the issue. :)

Texmaker now looks different but I can't say how. Sorry for lame comment.

[mo (deez)]

While removing appmenu-qt5 solves the issue, it also removes the unified menu which isn't so nice. For me, simply downloading and installing the qt4 version of texmaker (for Ubuntu 15.10, works just fine on 16.04) from the texmaker homepage solved the issue. Now I still have the unified menu, shortcuts working plus the latest version of Texmaker :)
The version I used for this: http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/texmaker_ubuntu_15.10_4.5_amd64.deb

Of course, a proper fix for qt5 would still be nice.

[Ника (nikaponens)]

I as well confirm that removing appmenu-qt5 package solves the issue.