Bug 83732

Summary:	Keyboard shortcuts are not working with multiple layouts like CTRL+A (using Hindi keyboard Layout)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan <maarizwan>
Component:	kcmkeys	Assignee:	Ellis Whitehead <ellis>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	arysin
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Mohd Asif Ali Rizwaan 2004-06-20 23:33:50 UTC

Version: ?????? (using KDE 3.2.3, compiled sources)
Compiler: gcc version 3.3.3
OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.26

I use Hindi and English in KDE 3.2.3,

So to switch the keyboard layout the shortcut key is "CTRL+ALT+K",

I want to switch to [Dev] i.e., Hindi and [US] i.e., English one after the other.

To do that: I am supposed to press CTRL+ALT+K to switch to Hindi layout and again CTRL+ALT+K to switch to US/English layout. But after switching of keyboard layout to Hindi (non english) layout, the Keyboard shortcuts are not working. Because it (shortcut manager) is expecting CTRL+ALT+K but it is getting "CTRL+ALT+U0915". Hence keyboard layout switching is not working. I got it fixed by assigning "Alternate keyboard shortcut" to "CTRL+ALT+U0915".

Like the above problem. all shortcuts are not working due to the switchover to Unicode characters.

CTRL+A is used to "Select ALL" text/stuff, but when we change the keyboard layout to non-english (here I mean [Dev] Hindi) the shortcut CTRL+A is not working because it (the keyboard layout) is sending "CTRL+U094B" instead of "CTRL+A".

Due to this switch in Keyboard layout all existing keyboard shortcuts which is present in [US] English layout is not working in other (non-english) keyboard layouts.

Suggestion:

1. It would be great if layout change also triggers keyboard shortcut change in "kcmshell keys"
or
2. if a user select 2 keyboard layout then the shortcuts resembling/similar to US keyboard layout should get appended to non-english keyboard shortcuts.

Example: if user adds Hindi Language then kcmkeys should append "CTRL+U094B" as alternative shortcut for "CTRL+A"

Thanks.

Comment 1 Linux User 2004-06-29 19:29:46 UTC

Fedora Core 2, KDE v3.2.2-6-redhat

I´m using 2 keyboard layers: US and IL (Hebrew). 
When I switch to Hebrew, allmost all keyboard shortcuts become inactive. Things like CTRL+ALT+K, CTRL+A etc. 

However, shortcuts on nutral keys continue to function, i.e. ALT+CTRL+SPACE, CTRL+1 etc.

Comment 2 uwe maysara 2005-11-05 14:58:01 UTC

This is true for every non-latin kb layout, and its very annoying, if you have more that 2 kb layouts(the extra ones are non-latin), its impossible to use the kb shortcut in at least one of them, in other words you can use the kb shortcuts only for two kb layouts. this is a very ugly lemitation.

Comment 3 lkaratzas 2005-12-25 11:36:16 UTC

I would like to confirm the above (very annoying) defect for the Greek layout. The problem is much more serious than "Normal". In fact it effectively cripples KDE for all non-English users, especially the ones who use it extensively for large-scale input. And it seems the bug has been there forever.

Comment 4 Thiago Macieira 2005-12-25 14:23:31 UTC

Turn on "Include Latin layout" in kxkb.

Comment 5 Technologov 2006-09-08 14:33:59 UTC

The problem is confirmed under openSUSE 10.2 Alpha4, KDE 3.5.4.

I recommend a solution for KDE:
Please make this checkbox "on" by default for all languages.

Comment 6 Mike FABIAN 2007-03-20 20:23:19 UTC

See also: http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204402

Comment 7 Dmitrii 'Mamut' Dimandt 2007-08-23 12:24:48 UTC

> Please make this checkbox "on" by default for all languages. 

You get my vote for that

Comment 8 Andriy Rysin 2010-05-13 05:09:01 UTC

This should be now working as expected as KDE4 switches layout groups (instead of switching whole layout map).