Bug 338361 - After swapping Esc and Caps Lock and assigning new action to shortcut which includes Esc, it doesn't work.
Summary: After swapping Esc and Caps Lock and assigning new action to shortcut which i...
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_keyboard (show other bugs)
Version: 5.0.0
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Sebastian Kügler
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Reported: 2014-08-18 17:36 UTC by Henri K
Modified: 2021-03-19 21:55 UTC (History)
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Description Henri K 2014-08-18 17:36:03 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. Swap Esc and Caps Lock: System Settings > Human Input Devices > Keyboard > Advanced > Caps Lock key behaviour > Swap ESC and Caps Lock
2. Assign some action to shortcut which includes the new Esc key (original Caps Lock key) in system settings.
3. Try to press shortcut = doesn't work.
4. Try to press same shortcut but use original Esc key (should act as Caps lock now) = works.
Comment 1 Henri K 2014-08-21 16:35:00 UTC 
I noticed that after swapping those keys and setting a shortcut including Esc, sometimes when I login I need to use hardware Esc to make that happen, sometimes Caps Lock. It varies and I haven't noticed clear pattern there so far.
Comment 2 Arek Guzinski 2016-01-13 17:14:53 UTC 
Bump!

This still happens with KUbuntu 15.10 and Plasma 5.4.3 :(
also with every other KUbuntu/Kf5 version before that.
Comment 3 Stephan Diestelhorst 2016-02-26 13:52:51 UTC 
Maybe similar to bug 356851 and bug 355354?  I also have a similar bug with detaild log output here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemsettings/+bug/1545293
Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 07:29:40 UTC 
Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.
Comment 5 Arek Guzinski 2021-03-10 08:35:17 UTC 
I'm on current neon now (see below) and it works. However I do remember this bug switching on and off between updates, but don't think it happened since 2019 or so. There is also the question how well this works on wayland...


Operating System: KDE neon 5.21
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.8.0-43-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Graphics Platform: X11
Comment 6 utomas 2021-03-19 21:55:25 UTC 
(In reply to Justin Zobel from comment #4)
> Thank you for the bug report.
> 
> As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can
> please confirm that the issue still persists.
> 
> If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to
> resolved.

In Wayland, it didn't exist since last major update 5.21, where it reappear.

I can reproduce similar behaviour but instead of "swapping Esc with Caps lock", by using the "Using caps lock as another Esc" option, where the Caps lock behaves like a Caps lock, and you expected an Esc behaviour.