Bug 365812

Summary: global "lock screen" shortcut unaware of user's keyboard layout
Product: [Unmaintained] ksmserver Reporter: Patrick Hanft <mail>
Component: generalAssignee: Lubos Lunak <l.lunak>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: h.klene, mail
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.7.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Patrick Hanft 2016-07-18 12:06:13 UTC
I'm a user of the alternative keyboard layout "Neo 2" which is an alternative keyboard layout optimized for German language. Usually this is very vell supported althrough the plasma desktop.

Beginning with my upgrade to plasma 5 coming from KDE 4.x, the global "lock screen shortcut" stopped working for me. While all other shortcuts worked quite normally, both, the default [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[L] as well as any other configured variant ([Win]+[L] and others) did not work as expected.

By pure accident I recently I realized, that this shortcut probably does not respect my user keyboard layout, as I suddenly locked my screen by hitting [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[T] instead.

To help visualize this issue, please find Neo 2 keyboard layout here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#/media/File:Neo_2.0-Tastaturbelegung_Ebene1.svg

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure de-neo2 as user's keyboard layout 
2. press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[L] in neo2 layout (which maps to physical [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[E] in qwerty/qwertz layout)

Actual Results:  
nothing happens

Expected Results:  
screen should bo locked

3. instead when you press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[T] in neo2 layout – which maps to [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[L] in usual Qwerty/Qwertz layout – result: screen locks.
Comment 1 Holger 2018-10-01 21:19:52 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 375518 ***
Comment 2 Holger 2018-10-02 09:22:29 UTC
Sorry, bug 375518 is about wayland, while this sounds more like the old X11 -> reassign to bug 350816

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 350816 ***