Comment 232 for bug 1226962

This helped me in a couple of installations:

Confirm Ubuntu 14.04 with latest updates.

This helps me:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:attente/java-non-latin-shortcuts
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
and then "restart unity-settings-daemon"

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:03 AM, defis <email address hidden> wrote:

> 1. Ubuntu 14.04, clean installed
> 2. English (US) + Greek
> 3. (Left) LShift + (Left) LAlt
> 4. Unity
> 5. Blender v2.7
>
> When I use English keyboard layout I can use all the shortcuts (except
> some that use the Alt key, but that's a Linux problem. For example Alt
> + (Middle) MClick (or button 3)). But When I switch to Greek, I can use
> only the numeric shortcut (Ctlr + 1 for example).
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226962
>
> Title:
> Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout in 13.10 and 14.04
>
> Status in Aptana Studio Installer:
> New
> Status in Default settings for the Baltix GNU/Linux OS and desktop:
> New
> Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
> Confirmed
> Status in IBus:
> New
> Status in Indicator keyboard:
> Fix Released
> Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool:
> New
> Status in Mutter:
> Fix Released
> Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
> New
> Status in Unity:
> Fix Released
> Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “indicator-keyboard” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “openjdk-7” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “unity-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Fedora:
> Unknown
> Status in “gnome-shell” package in Fedora:
> Unknown
>
> Bug description:
> New keyboard layout changer in Ubuntu 13.10 introduce old-new bug. Any
> system or application hotkey witch use char (for example: ctrl+alt+t for
> terminal or ctrl+t for new tab in browser) become unfunctional when
> selected non-latin keyboard layout.
> Hotkeys with F1-12, numbers and other non-character buttons works
> perfectly.
>
> Window manager hotkeys not affected by this bug. All hotkeys in system
> parameters->keyboard->hotkeys->windows works perfect with any keyboard
> layout.
>
> Workaround for some system hotkeys and two layouts (english and non-
> latin): rebind all hotkeys in your local layout. For example instead
> of ctrl+alt+t use ctrl+alt+τ (greek tau). That hotkey still work with
> english layout. If you use english and two different non-latin
> layouts this workaround helps only with one of them.
>
>
> Dear Ubuntu users and developers!
> Please include the following information to your comment about non-latin
> shortcuts problems:
> 1. What Ubuntu version do you have (Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.10 GNOME,
> Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.04 GNOME and so on), upgraded (describe version) or
> clean installed
> 2. What keyboard layout do you have
> 3. What shortcut for keyboard layout switching do you use
> 4. On which session you have problems - that is one from Unity, GNOME
> Shell, GNOME FlashBack/Fallback (Metacity), GNOME FlashBack/Fallback
> (Compiz)
> 5. With which program and its version and origin (Ubuntu repositories,
> PPA, non-deb binary package from some website) you have problems.
>
> By providing this information you can make bug-fixing much simpler and
> may be faster.
>
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> For other layout switching problems introduced in Ubuntu 13.10 you can
> see bug 1218322.
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