Actually this seems to affect every key that is not handled directly to the target application, but indirectly (through the window-manager?), e.g. also media buttons when the associated media application window is not focused.
I also seem to have stumbled over a workaround somehow: I'm using Ubuntu Gnome here, and after installing kubuntu-desktop (during installation I selected lightdm, not gdm) and starting into KDE once (there the affected buttons didn't work either), on next login the login screen changed to KDE-style (where you can choose the UI type). After logging in to Gnome again the buttons seem to work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1404468 Title: German neo2 keyboard layout: no ALT and SUPER keys Status in xkeyboard-config package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Affected version: Ubuntu 14.04. When switching to the Neo 2 keyboard layout, I cannot use the ALT or SUPER keys at all. To reproduce this bug, do the following: - In the keyboard system tray menu, select "Text Entry" - Click "+" - Select: "Germany (Neo 2)" - Close the "Text Entry" configuration - In the keyboard system tray menu, (temporarily) select "Germany (Neo 2)" as active layout. Now, shortcuts like <ALT>+<TAB>, <ALT>+<F2>, ... are no longer working. The same goes for the shortcuts I tried with <SUPER>. Switching to Neo2 by "setxkbmap de neo" has the same result. For sake of completeness: There are other bug reports regarding Neo2, reporting that Layer4 (Mod4) is not working. In my case, Mod4 seems to be working fine. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1404468/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
