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Wednesday, 11 February 2015

[lubuntu] Keyboard layout issues: no effect when changing settings in lxkeymap topic






One of the recent updates (~ 1.5 weeks) has totally screwed up my previous keyboard layout.
Still worse, I can't seem to REMOVE what's pre-set in there.

I've always loved the variant to have the ever-useless CAPS LOCK as "Compose" key.
However, by some magic the "shift_caps_toggle" option was added (it was not there before), and now is obviously blocking Caps Lock from working the way I want it!

I've tried everything imaginable to get the "grp:shift_caps_toggle" option removed from the layout, but it just does not work.

Plus, I've tried to grep for this option to be configured anywhere, to no avail.

Though not recommended, I even removed the "shift_caps_toggle" option from ~/.config/lxpanel/Lubuntu/panels/panel, but now look:


Code:


andy@andy-lubuntubox:~$ lxkeymap -a
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lxkeymap/helpers.py:46: GtkWarning: Unknown property: GtkMenu.ubuntu-local
  builder.add_from_file(ui_filename)
Sections: ['Global']
Layouts: ['us']
Variants: ['', '']
Options: ['grp:shift_caps_toggle']
['Global']
['compose:caps']
Lxkeymap autostart running...


Ehh??
Where else does lxkeymap (which is a Python script, by the way) pull that Options line from?
For a moment, I've even thought of a random variable which was not cleared (like in C, when you don't initialize a string variable, it might display some random garbage)

Sometimes lxkeymap recently complains that it is unable to save current settings. Hmmm...






Saturday, 7 February 2015

Some keyboard shortcuts has no effect when keyboard layout is not english. topic






Hi.
Why is it that when the keyboard layout is set to non-english (Hebrew), then some keyboard shortcut does not work?
For example, when I hit Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V it has no effect whatsoever. So whenever I want to copy-paste some hebrew text, I need to shift the keyboard layout to english, then hit Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy-paste the text, then shift it back to hebrew keyboar layout to keep writing. That's really annoying.
In fact, looking at this list of keyboard shortcuts everything in that list works fine when the keyboard layout is hebrew except the Common Application shortcuts described in this link.
Is it a known bug? Is it even a bug? maybe missing installation files?

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS.