Bug 87866

Summary:	strange problem with keybinding of slash and asterix
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs	Reporter:	Michael Thalmann <mt>
Component:	qt	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ogoffart, StarkRG
Priority:	NOR
Version:	3.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Michael Thalmann 2004-08-23 20:11:55 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

From MacOSX with the official X11 installed, I ssh into linux-server and start kwrite. For example:

ssh 192.168.100.1 -X
kwrite &

Key '/' gives shift + up , and key '*' gives shift + right! All other keys including umlauts are ok! If I open for example the open file dialog in kwrite and type a filename into the textbox, the keys give / and * respectively.  I use German as the keyboard layout on OSX and on the linux-box.

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2004-10-04 21:48:01 UTC

*** Bug 88188 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Eli 2004-10-04 23:02:11 UTC

This isn't exactly the same as bug #88188 in that I can use / just fine, + and * are the issues and I can't use shift-up or down, I'm running it locally, not through ssh, and (I think) I'm using a standard 104 key US layout. It still may be the same underlying issue though, just wanted to let you know the differences between what I posted and this one.

Comment 3 Anders Lund 2004-11-20 20:24:18 UTC

Shouldn't this be reassigned to kdelibs or even Qt? Katepart does not do anything special to *, + or / that I know of.

Comment 4 Eli 2004-11-22 07:05:25 UTC

Anders: I would agree with you except it only happens in programs that use this (eg. kate, kwrite, quanta) and I have yet to find a problem using anything else (though to be honest I don't use a WHOLE lot else... konqueror mostly)

Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2005-03-24 18:25:15 UTC

if this is at all a valid bug, than on kdelibs or qt level, kate doesn't handle this keys in any special way and doesn't work around the kdelibs/qt infrastructure for keyhandling at all :)

Comment 6 Eli 2005-03-24 19:10:55 UTC

in that case why would it only happen in kate or kate based programs?

Comment 7 Michael Thalmann 2005-04-03 23:48:24 UTC

I'm very happy that KDE 3.4 has solved the problems!