Wesnoth does not capture the ALT key.

[Brian Neltner]

In Ubuntu 12.10, Wesnoth 1.10 does not capture keypresses from ALT.

CTL-R, for instance, correctly calls up the recruit menu, while CTL-ALT-R does nothing (it should call up the recall menu).

I am assuming some conflict in keybindings, but don't know the details.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: wesnoth-1.10 1:1.10.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-10.10-generic 3.5.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-10-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 22 13:41:24 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120724.3)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: wesnoth-1.10
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Vincent Cheng (vincent-c)]

ALT+R is the default keybinding for recalling units (and works fine for me), not CTRL+ALT+R.

[Brian Neltner (neltnerb)]

Sorry, typo.

ALT+R for recalling units does *not* work for me on 12.10.
CTL+ALT+R for repeating the last recruit does *not* work for me on 12.10.
ALT+S for the status table does *not* work for me on 12.10.

While CTL+R for recruiting does work on 12.10.

Further, the display manager keybindings for ALT work fine. CTL+ALT+L locks the screen fine. ALT+TAB brings up the application switcher fine. So it is not my ALT key.

Further, in LibreOffice, CTL+ALT+C correctly inserts a comment, so it is not the display manager capturing *all* ALT keypresses and not passing them along.

From the behavior it is extremely clear that ALT is not being captured by Wesnoth, and that this behavior is limited to Wesnoth.

I don't know what further information I can provide given that I have the bug but you for some reason don't. However, it is very clearly valid to me.

[Brian Neltner (neltnerb)]

Bug still exists as of June, 2013. Very annoying, and no ideas for a workaround.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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