Bug 859425 - Switch keyboard shortcut steals key-pressed events
Summary: Switch keyboard shortcut steals key-pressed events
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-evdev
Version: 17
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-09-21 14:10 UTC by David Hladky
Modified: 2013-08-01 13:49 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 13:49:31 UTC
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Description David Hladky 2012-09-21 14:10:22 UTC
I have two keyboard layouts defined and a shortcut to switch between them. Let us say Ctrl-Shift. However many programs use shortcuts either, such as Ctrl-Shift-T. 

Whenever you you press the longer shortcut (Ctrl-Shift-T), Fedora switches the keyboard and the application gets "Shift-T" instead. 

I changed the switch keyboard layout to Alt-Shift and so when I press Alt-Shift-T, the application, that has focus gets Alt-T. 

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The logical behaviour is when I just press Ctrl-Shift (depending on the switch layout shortcut), it shall switch the keyboard. However if more keys are pressed at once (let us say Ctrl-Shift-T), the application, that has focus should get Ctrl-Shift-T so it can do whatever is associated with the combination.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2012-09-25 05:18:53 UTC
I don't think this is logically possible, but assigning to the input layer. It may need moved into the X keyboard stack.

Comment 2 David Hladky 2012-10-01 07:22:36 UTC
I guess the main reason for this is a wrong event for the functionality. The "switch keyboard layout" works on key-down. You can never press all the keys at once. 

If it were registered on key-up, it should not be a problem to check, whether just Ctrl-Shift was pressed - which means switch layout, or Ctrl-Shift-T, which is open class in Eclipse.

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