Bug 372068

Summary: Kate 3.13.3 randomly switches keyboard layout
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: Marc Brevoort <mrjb>
Component: applicationAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: normal CC: christoph
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Screenshot showing only 1 keyboard layout installed

Description Marc Brevoort 2016-11-04 11:54:11 UTC
Created attachment 102028 [details]
Screenshot showing only 1 keyboard layout installed

The only keyboard layout installed on my system is gb (English-UK) yet Kate keeps occasionally swapping the layout to US English. I'm not even sure how it knows to swap the @ and " keys, but it's very annoying. 

This on an Ubuntu 14.04 system on the stock Unity desktop.
Comment 1 Dominik Haumann 2016-11-04 19:08:44 UTC
Do you maybe accidentally hit the global keyboard shortcut for keyboard layout switches (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+k or similar, don't know exactly) ?

In any case, please upgrade to a newer version of KDE Plasma and Kate. You can also use a current version of Kate through the AppImage (make it executable and start it), see https://kate-editor.org/get-it/
Comment 2 Dominik Haumann 2016-11-04 19:09:15 UTC
*** Bug 372069 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Marc Brevoort 2016-11-07 09:05:04 UTC
Hi,

> Do you maybe accidentally hit the global keyboard
> shortcut for keyboard layout switches (e.g.
> Ctrl+Alt+k or similar, don't know exactly) ?

Short answer: No.

Long answer:

My text entry settings only show a GB keyboard layout.
Even in the highly unlikely event that I accidentally
hit a multi-key shortcut, I'd not be switching layouts.

As said, I'm not even sure where the US layout I'm being
presented with, is coming from.

I have upgraded my whole system last weekend, and am now
on Kate 15.12.3 - if the issue persists I'll update
within a month.

Best,
Marc
Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2017-07-23 14:08:10 UTC
Sorry, can not reproduce.
If you have some way to do so with a current release, please report how we can do so.
Thanks!