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key:5 does not work when key:½ us used as shortcut
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Severity:
critical
Product:
Xfce4-settings
Component:
Keyboard Settings

Comments

Description Mikko Räsänen 2016-04-05 12:45:17 CEST
First: I apologize if i have posted the bug in the wrong classification. I am not yet experienced in the inner workings of xfce, so I had to take a guess. It would be terrific, if you had a link for "I don't know".

Now to the case:

* Bug observed in xfce 4.12 but NOT in 4.10 where it works as expected.
* Above is true in both Slackware and Xubuntu (so not distro-specific).
* All above is true in danish keyboard-layout but not in english(US). Other layouts not tried.

Reproducible: yes
Periodic: no

Bug reproduction:
1. Use xfce language English(United States).
2. Set keyboard layout to Danish
3. Create Application shortcut: xfce4-terminal --drop-down
3.1 Set key shortcut to the key just left of '1' and just above 'TAB'
3.1.1 It is the normal key for a Quake-terminal.
3.1.2 On a danish keyboard: '½'
3.2.3 On an english(US) keyboard: '`'
4. Now you cannot use the key '5' (above 'r' and 't') ('5' on numpad works fine).

Consequences:
* If you are not a typist, you will overlook the missing 5s eg. in entering commands in the terminal. This can quickly lead to critical issues in a *Linux system.

Further notes:
* I do not experience the bug, while assigning the shortcut to one of '1', '2', '3', '4', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0' -- specifically do I not experience it while assigning the shortcut to '5' (so it doesn't go both ways).
Comment 1 Kalle Kadakas 2018-02-28 18:57:47 CET
Hello, this is still a thing in 2018. When mapping tilde to anything, estonian layout users loose "ä" "Ä" - (the second key to the right of "L" on nordic/swedish/norwegian layouts... or with showkey -s, the key named 0x28 0xa8)
Similar thing happened with nr 6 (not on keypad), when unmapping tilde, it started working fine on ET layouts.
Comment 2 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-28 23:05:16 CEST
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Bug #12531

Reported by:
Mikko Räsänen
Reported on: 2016-04-05
Last modified on: 2020-05-28

People

Assignee:
Jérôme Guelfucci
CC List:
4 users

Version

Version:
4.12.0

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