Bug 241313 - setting "highlight the pointer..." in mouse-properties breaks keyboard applet
Summary: setting "highlight the pointer..." in mouse-properties breaks keyboard applet
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: control-center
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Control Center Maintainer
QA Contact: desktop-bugs@redhat.com
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-05-25 01:48 UTC by Toshiyuki Takamiya
Modified: 2015-06-02 01:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-05-08 03:50:51 UTC
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Description Eido Inoue 2007-05-25 01:48:54 UTC
Description of problem:
The cursor-locater assistance functionality interferes with people that use more
than one keyboard (for example, those that use a Dvorak keyboard with there
Qwerty laptop when it's docked)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
control-center-2.16.0-14.el5
gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add keyboard selector applet to panel. Create a U.S. Dvorak keyboard in
addition to main U.S. keyboard. Set to a 104-key keyboard
2. Enable "highlight the pointer..." in gnome-mouse-properties.
3. Switch to Dvorak in gnome-terminal. Attempt to use control-C etc. 
  
Actual results:
Mapping for the control keys follows main keyboard and not chosen keyboard.
Sometimes it follows neither.

Expected results:
Control keys should follow the mapping of the selected keyboard.

Additional info:
It seems that the cursor locater functionality also affects each window's
ability to remember its state (which keyboard its using) as well.

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2009-05-08 03:50:51 UTC
Long-standing known bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125618


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