KDE: Cannot use Meta+accented char in global keyboard shortcut

[bigben99]

Using an azerty keyboard, I want to assign "Switch to Desktop 2" to Meta+é ("é" is located on the "2" key without shift).

I do this in System settings , Global Keyboard Shortcuts, KDE component = KWin, then select "Switch to Desktop 2" and type Meta+é in Custom. But, when I press Meta+é (actually Windows key + é), Meta+É is displayed, and the shortcut does not work.
If I change ~/.kde/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc to replace Meta+É to Meta+é, it does not work either.

Using Kubuntu 9.04

[jstammi (jstammi)]

I can confirm this problem, similar for me (with e.g. Meta-Shift-% for moving active window to fifth virtual desktop): in the "learning" mode of the global shortcut setting for that action it first shows correctly "Meta-Shift" but with pressing the 5/% the Shift disappears and only the wrong never being reachable Meta-% stays there.

Currently in Jaunty with using KDE 4.3 from PPA but already before with "official" KDE 4.2. But for the 4.2 in Jaunty not from the very beginning on as I first observed it later with enlarging my number of virtual desktops from 4 to 5. The 1-4 were defined and shown initially correctly after having installed a fresh Jaunty.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Is this bug reproducible with the latest Lucid packages ?
Tanks in advance.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

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[bigben99 (bigben99)]

The bug is still present in lucid (KDE 4.4.2).
It is referenced as Bug 167428 in KDE Bug Tracking System (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167428)

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

This was filed against the wrong driver package. -keyboard is no longer maintained; keyboards are managed via the -evdev driver now. But canonical no longer maintains kubuntu so an SRU for fixing this (if one could be developed) is not going to be done.