I had a similar problem, not with french but with dvorak layout: SOLUTION IN UBUNTU JAUNTY I too suddenly got this strange behaviour, but it used to work before.
Behaviour: In gnome-terminal, before I could start typing a command and then cancel it by pressing Ctrl+I on a qwerty keyboard. That is Ctrl+C on a dvorak. Suddenly I could not. In fact all Ctrl+<whatever> did not work in gnome- terminal. But they did in openoffice, firefox etc. After some head scratching and googling I found some hints saying it helped to delete the US layout. Made me think about that I recently had updated my keyboard configuration file (http://arno.homelinux.org/dvorak/), and to make xkb take it into consideration I usually 0) Copy the xkb file into /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ 1) Open keyboard preferences and delete the dvorak layout 2) Open keyboard preferences and add the dvorak layout again Now I can type my updated keyboard. -But this time the "US Ctrl keys" are in effect no matter what I try, even when choosing the dvorak layout. MY SOLUTION: ------------------------------------------- 1) Open keyboard preferences and delete all but the dvorak layout 2) Add the layouts again. 3) Enjoy. ------------------------------------------- To me this is STILL A BUG, since now when I select US keyboard, I have to press Ctrl+I to get a Ctrl+C. In other words, dvorak rules the Ctrl- key. However since I never use anything but my custom layout I'm not very much affected... When thinking about it, I probably never saw this bug before because I chose Norway dvorak during the install process. It is actually the system default layout, to my cow-orkers' despair. ;) I'm writing this long story to remember it myself, maybe it will help you too. -- ubuntu gnome-terminal - wrong key mapping in bash with a french keyboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174832 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
