Key combinations work only in English layout

Bug #696247 reported by tim474
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xdotool (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xdotool

Emulation of key combinations by xdotool (as example, xdotool key alt+F4) works only in English layout, if I switch to Russian keyboard layout, they stop to work. In early than 10.10 versions of Ubuntu there was not this problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xdotool 1:2.20100701.2961-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 1 17:05:27 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xdotool

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tim474 (tim474) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in xdotool (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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