Keyboard layout change on hotkeys press instead of release and do not work well with shortcuts
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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X.Org X server |
New
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Unknown
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gnome-control-center |
Unknown
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Medium
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is a bug about shortcuts mapped to combinations which include each other.
For example, if we have Ctrl+Shift (for keyboard layout) and Ctrl+Shift+N (to open a new terminal), then we are practically unable to use the second shortcut; this is what happens:
Ctrl press (nothing happens)
Shift press (keyboard layout change)
N (a simple N appears, since a shortcut has already fired)
The expected behavior is to fire shortcuts on the release (not on press) of the special keys (ctrl,shift,alt, etc) which is also how Windows behave. This is a serious problem for bilingual layouts, typically using Alt+Shift or Ctrl+Shift for keyboard layout change.
For users being affected by this problem, the easiest solution for now is to add this PPA in your repositories:
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Practical summary of this bug for ubuntu developers (since reading 120 comments is impractical for most):
This problem is a really old (since 2004) issue of the xkb part of xorg; the main discussion was made upstream in freedesktop-bugs #865. There has been a patch from Ilya Murav'jov for upstream (#55), and attached here (#61).
Upstream xorg has refused to apply the patch, mainly because it "explicitly contradicts the (xkb) spec" (#84, #91).
This patch has been reported to work for many people without any problems, and there is also a PPA by Oded Arbel (#95) where he maintains a patched version of the ubuntu xorg.
The proper resolution of this bug would be to apply this patch to the upstream xorg, or at minimum to the official ubuntu xorg package.
Related branches
Changed in control-center: | |
status: | Unknown → Rejected |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | Unknown → In Progress |
tags: | added: patch |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Invalid → Unknown |
affects: | hundredpapercuts → null |
Changed in null: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu) |
Changed in control-center (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody |
Changed in xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
affects: | xserver-xorg-input-evdev (Ubuntu) → xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Medium → Critical |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | Critical → High |
no longer affects: | null |
affects: | control-center (Ubuntu) → gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | In Progress → Won't Fix |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | Won't Fix → Confirmed |
tags: | added: artful bionic trusty xenial |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | Confirmed → Unknown |
tags: |
added: cosmic disco eoan removed: artful |
Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
importance: | High → Unknown |
status: | Fix Released → Unknown |
Changed in xorg-server: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
tags: | removed: cosmic |
tags: |
added: focal hirsute impish removed: disco eoan trusty |
tags: | removed: hirsute |
tags: | removed: impish |
tags: | added: jammy kinetic |
*** Bug 731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***