** Description changed: - 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. + Keyboard shortcuts are key combinations like Alt+F (usually opens the + File menu) and Ctrl+O (usually opens the File→Open... dialog box). - Window manager hotkeys not affected by this bug. All hotkeys in system - parameters->keyboard->hotkeys->windows works perfect with any keyboard - layout. + There is an issue with non-latin keyboard layouts that the keys under F or O (for Alt+F and Ctrl+O respectively) would correspond to some other character. + What should happen then? There is some smart functionality (at least in the GTK+ library) that when we press a shortcut, it will try to make Alt+F or Ctrl+O work, even if the active keyboard layout is not English. - 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. + For this smart functionality to work, it requires us to have as first keyboard layout the English (en) layout. Then, GTK+ will be able to + check whether the shortcut makes sense for English, and if so, will run it. + All that even if the active layout is Greek or Russian or something else. + This report has over 300 comments and these comments include all sort of corner cases that indeed shortcuts do not work. In general, shortcuts work, + but in specific cases there are issues that need to be fixed. - 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. + What we need to do, is collect those corner cases and create new + separate reports. - By providing this information you can make bug-fixing much simpler and - may be faster. + Here are the corner cases: - ---------- - For other layout switching problems introduced in Ubuntu 13.10 you can see bug 1218322. - ---------- + 1. In Dash (in Unity 7), shortcuts like Super+S/W work (for example, Greek, Russian), but they do not work for Super+A/F/M/C/V. + Report: <not reported yet> + + 2. Java GUI applications on Linux do not support shortcuts in non-latin languages. This is an issue with Java and should be reported there. + Java GUI apps are not included in any of the Ubuntu ISOs. + Report: <not reported yet> + + 3. Shortcuts that use Ctrl on LibreOffice work for several languages (like Greek, Russian), but has been reported not to work on Hebrew. + This should be a separate bug report specific to Hebrew and other languages affected in the same way. + Report: <not reported yet>
** Summary changed: - Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout + Keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) not functional in some cases in non-latin keyboard layout ** Summary changed: - Keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) not functional in some cases in non-latin keyboard layout + Keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) not functional in some cases in non-latin keyboard layouts -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226962 Title: Keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) not functional in some cases in non-latin keyboard layouts To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/aptana-studio-installer/+bug/1226962/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
