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xkeyboard-config package

  1. Bug #193018
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 193018

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AlexGenaud (alexgenaud) wrote :

This (bad) behaviour is (bad) work-around to other bugs. Alt-Shift is the default language/keyboard layout shortcut. Nearly everyone outside of US/Anglo saxon world will expect this keyboard shortcut (including Mark Shuttleworth).

Just installed 10.10 and surprised these numerous Alt-Shift bugs have not been resolved. If Alt-Shift is used to switch keyboard layouts (as it is in Windows) then Alt-Shift-Tab (to switch windows in reverse, also standard Windows and Gnome behaviour) no longer works. However, Shift-Alt-Tab and Alt-Shift will work together -- certainly not an intuitive solution.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/322068
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/compiz/+bug/150702/comments/12

Perhaps someone can go through the possibly 800 bug reports and come up with common use cases, mark them all duplicate and finally solve these issues? (personally, I only encounter 1 or 2 error/use cases).

https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=Alt-Shift