[Bug 1226962] Re: Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout in 13.10, 14.04, 14.04.1

[Eli Mitrani]

I am using Hebrew layout on Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu Gnome 14.04. The bug
exists on both. The only workaround I found was to change the Hebrew
layout to Hebrew Lyx. This solves the problem of shortcuts, which is
great!

However it introduces a new minor problem:
In the normal Hebrew layout pressing Shift or Caps Lock allows writing characters in uppercase English - this is very convenient when you want to add only several English words to a sentence.  
In Hebrew Lyx pressing the Shift Key gives punctuation characters.

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Title:
  Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout in 13.10, 14.04,
  14.04.1

Status in Aptana Studio Installer:
  New
Status in Default settings for the Baltix GNU/Linux OS and desktop:
  New
Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
  Confirmed
Status in IBus:
  New
Status in Indicator keyboard:
  Fix Released
Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool:
  New
Status in MonoDevelop:
  New
Status in Mutter:
  Fix Released
Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  New
Status in Unity:
  Fix Released
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “indicator-keyboard” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “openjdk-7” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “unity-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Fedora:
  Unknown
Status in “gnome-shell” package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  New keyboard layout changer in Ubuntu 13.10 introduce  old-new bug. Any system or application hotkey witch use char (for example: ctrl+alt+t for terminal or ctrl+t for new tab in browser) become unfunctional when selected non-latin keyboard layout.
  Hotkeys with F1-12, numbers and other non-character buttons works perfectly.

  Window manager hotkeys not affected by this bug. All hotkeys in system
  parameters->keyboard->hotkeys->windows works perfect with any keyboard
  layout.

  Workaround for some system hotkeys and two layouts (english and non-
  latin): rebind all hotkeys in your local layout. For example instead
  of ctrl+alt+t use ctrl+alt+τ (greek tau). That hotkey still work with
  english layout.  If you use english and two different non-latin
  layouts this workaround helps only with one of them.


  Dear Ubuntu users and developers! 
  Please include the following information to your comment about non-latin shortcuts problems:
  1. What Ubuntu version do you have (Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.10 GNOME, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.04 GNOME and so on), upgraded (describe version) or clean installed
  2. What keyboard layout do you have
  3. What shortcut for keyboard layout switching do you use 
  4. On which session you have problems - that is one from Unity, GNOME Shell, GNOME FlashBack/Fallback (Metacity), GNOME FlashBack/Fallback (Compiz)
  5. With which program and its version and origin (Ubuntu repositories, PPA, non-deb binary package from some website) you have problems.

  By providing this information you can make bug-fixing much simpler and
  may be faster.

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  For other layout switching problems introduced in Ubuntu 13.10 you can see bug 1218322.
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