From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Fedora/1.7.6-1.3.2 Description of problem: My locale is fr_FR and I'm trying to write Greek text under KDE. I'm using Kxkb, Kxkb is activated and running. I switch to Greek input using Kxkb. Unfortunately as soon as I do that, accelerators don't work anymore. The reason is that Kxkb maps the keyboard even when Alt or Ctrl are pressed. For example Ctrl+F is transformed into Ctrl+Φ. That shouldn't happen. In any case that's not what applications expect (I've tried OpenOffice.org and different KDE and Gnome applications such as Kate or gedit). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdebase-3.3.1-4.3.FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have Kxkb activated and running. 3. Run xev. 2. Select English or French input in Kxkb. 3. Press Ctrl+F in xev. 4. Select Greek Input (el) in Kxkb. 5. Press Ctrl+F in xev. Actual Results: KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001, root 0xd6, subw 0x0, time 5448380, (125,48), root:(1223,357), state 0x0, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001, root 0xd6, subw 0x0, time 5449796, (125,48), root:(1223,357), state 0x4, keycode 41 (keysym 0x7f6, Greek_phi), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 2 bytes: (cf 86) "φ" XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001, root 0xd6, subw 0x0, time 5449892, (125,48), root:(1223,357), state 0x4, keycode 41 (keysym 0x7f6, Greek_phi), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001, root 0xd6, subw 0x0, time 5450196, (125,48), root:(1223,357), state 0x4, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: Expected Results: KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001, root 0xd6, subw 0x0, time 5385367, (120,125), root:(1218,434), state 0x0, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001, root 0xd6, subw 0x0, time 5387423, (120,125), root:(1218,434), state 0x4, keycode 41 (keysym 0x66, f), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (06) "" XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (06) "" XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001, root 0xd6, subw 0x0, time 5387519, (120,125), root:(1218,434), state 0x4, keycode 41 (keysym 0x66, f), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (06) "" KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001, root 0xd6, subw 0x0, time 5388495, (120,125), root:(1218,434), state 0x4, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: Additional info:
Created attachment 113091 [details] screenshot of Kxkb and gedit, ready to reproduce the bug Hitting Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V inside gedit doesn't have any effect. It should copy or paste instead.
I cannot reproduce with GTK+ applications (like gedit). Shortcuts work no matter in which layout the keyboard is set. As far as I know, GTK+ managed to solve this issue in around 2001.
Reporter: When you wrote this bug report, the current version of the kdebase package was kdebase-3.3.1-4.3.FC3. In the meantime, the most recent FC3 version of this became kdebase-3.4.2-0.fc3.3. Please give this newer version a try and let us know if the problem persists? Also, if you're now using Fedora Core 4, you may want to see if it is fixed in that version. If it is not, you may want to re-file this bug for FC4 and close this one. In any event, let us know? FC3 is now being maintained by Fedora Legacy. We focus almost exclusively on security and critical bug-fixes, so updates we do will be to the kdebase- 3.4.2-0.fc3.3 package for those kinds of bugs. At the moment, we have a bug open (see Bug #180057) for kdebase for a low-priority security flaw, to be fixed with security patches supplied from upstream (http://www.kde.org/). If your problem indeed persists with kxkb in this newer FC3 kdebase-3.4.2- 0.fc3.3, you can help us out by contacting upstream about the problem and letting us know if the issue has a patch available. We in Fedora Legacy may not have the time nor the expertise ourselves to fix the problem you report here. Placing the bug in "DEFER" category, for now, and NEEDINFO_REPORTER. Thanks.
Not a security issue.
The problem is still there in Fedora Core 5. Also I can reproduce it with KDE as well as GTK+ applications such as gedit. That's not suprprizing since it's probably a problem with the codes Kxkb itself sends to the applications, not with the toolkit used by the application. Simo, are you running KDE or Gnome?
Since reporter has changed this bug back to Fedora Core 5, reopening bug and reassigning bug to its Fedora Core maintainer, Ngo Than. Removing Fedora Legacy stuff from bug.
Reassigning bug to Fedora Core maintainer - Ngo Than.
Since this bug is very old, can you please check against a more recent release of kdebase (from an updated F7 or F8), thx I believe this has been fixed some time ago in KDE itself
I can still reproduce this with Fedora 8.
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