User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0 Build Identifier: The keys ctrl-shift-e in terminator are meant to do a vertical screen split when terminator is open and has focus. In stead some emoji dialog is opened that is useless from the perspective of using terminator. How can I prevent the system from intercepting the key combo ctrl-shift-e? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open terminator 2. press ctrl-shift-e while terminator has focus. 3. Actual Results: The dialog for an emoji choice opens. Expected Results: A vertical screen split (two terminals within terminator). I would very much like to know how Terminator can be made to receive the key combi ctrl-shift-e. I tried to find out whether the key is part of settings, but apparantly not, I can not find it. Neither in gnome settings, nor in tweak settings. Also, I can not find the binary responsible for the interception. Finally, I cannot find which package is responsible for the interception. Even though there is a workaround (using the mouse) I consider this a bug, because when typing in a terminal I want to avoid using the mouse. It is very annoying if I am forced to using the mouse. I sincerely hope there is an easy fix, like some setting I am not aware of, or removing a package.
I found the bug after upgrading to Fedora 28. Using Fedora 27 this was not a problem.
That sounds very much like a window manager is catching the key binding before it even arrives at terminator itself. Using Xfce (and thus, xfwm4 as window manager) i don't even know that a emoji selector exists in some kind. o.O Understanding that you're using GNOME or something related, I'd suggest to recheck the settings again. Unfortunately, since I'm not a GNOME user, I cannot say, where to search exactly.
It is gnome. However, neither the gnome settings nor the tweaking utility mention this shortcut. I mention that in the original description. If it was a simple setting I would have no problem. AFAICS it is not, unfortunately. Because it is not in the gnome settings anywhere, I suspect it is hidden in ibus, because the emoji input dialog comes from ibus. I wonder whether other people using gnome have the same issue. It is a fairly new bug, since Fedora 28, so it will take time for people to report it, I guess.
It seems this is a new feature brought by Fedora 28: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/IBus_Unicode_Typing if you `man ibus-emoji` : ... KEYBOARD OPERATIONS Control-Shift-e Launch IBus Emojier. The shortcut key can be customized by ibus-setup (1). ... Fun thing, my system does _not_ show any emoji chooser albeit with its current config it should. Nevertheless I think this can be closed with NOTABUG :) Cheers Fran
(In reply to Francisco Garcia from comment #4) > It seems this is a new feature brought by Fedora 28: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/IBus_Unicode_Typing > > if you `man ibus-emoji` : > > ... > KEYBOARD OPERATIONS > Control-Shift-e > Launch IBus Emojier. The shortcut key can be customized by > ibus-setup (1). > ... Thank you very much for this solution. It works. I have been able to delete the shortcut as I have no need for the emoji input dialog. > > > Fun thing, my system does _not_ show any emoji chooser albeit with its > current config it should. Nevertheless I think this can be closed with > NOTABUG :) I agree that it is thechnically not a bug, but it is pretty annoying if it gets in the way of my daily work with Fedora and Terminator. I am very glad though that you found where to disable the shortcut. I do wonder why this dialog is on by default for everyone, especially if it interferes with other programs. So, rant aside, I agree, this is not a bug of Terminator. Not sure if I should change the status tho, let me know if I should.
Thanks for pointing this out Francisco! I wouldn't have any idea about this. :-)