Bug 409563

Summary:	Konsole does not send shift+tab (backtab) to terminal
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Radon Rosborough <radon>
Component:	keyboard	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	frederick888, mglb, ninuje
Priority:	NOR
Version:	19.04.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Manjaro
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402161
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	19.08

Description Radon Rosborough 2019-07-07 02:27:50 UTC

SUMMARY
When I type shift+tab in Konsole, nothing happens. The terminal does not receive any key sequence (verify in Zsh by typing M-x describe-key-briefly and then shift+tab). This contradicts the default keyboard configuration, which says that Backtab+Ansi should generate the sequence I would expect, namely \E[Z. (I use this for cycling backwards through completion candidates in Zsh, as per https://stackoverflow.com/a/842370/3538165.)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Konsole
2. Run Zsh
3. Type M-x describe-key-briefly and then shift+tab.

OBSERVED RESULT
Nothing happens.

EXPECTED RESULT
I should at least see "undefined-key" from Zsh, indicating that a key sequence was sent to the terminal.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Manjaro, kernel 4.19.49
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.59.0
Qt Version: 5.12.3

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Zsh: 5.7.1
Konsole: 19.04.2

Related but unhelpful bugs:
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284000
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402161
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175476
- https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=225&t=141829

Comment 1 Mariusz Glebocki 2019-07-08 19:33:13 UTC

To make Shift+Tab work on 19.04, please remove Shift+Tab shortcut in Settings → Configure shortcuts (by default assigned to "Next View Container").
It is fixed on master.

Comment 2 Radon Rosborough 2019-07-09 01:10:07 UTC

Thanks, I can confirm that fixes the issue. It did not occur to me that there would be a place for customizing the behavior of the keyboard aside from Edit Current Profile > Keyboard. I now see that there are several different menu items for the settings; perhaps they could be unified to avoid confusion.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2019-07-09 11:22:15 UTC

*** Bug 402161 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***