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nivata

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Registered: 2014-05-30

Posts: 20

Keyboard layout not respected by certain applications

Hi,

I'm having some strange issues with certain applications concerning keyboard layouts. I have a xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf file to switch between azerty and dvorak layout as follow:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "fr,us,us"
        Option "XkbModel" "tm2030USB"
        Option "XkbVariant" "oss,dvorak-alt-intl,dvp"
        Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp:shifts_toggle"
EndSection

Now, this works well for most applications I have on my system, However, there are a few of them, like IPE from AUR, and recently Clion that I've been trying, that have a very strange behavior (there might be other apps not in AUR with similar behavior but I don't remember) .

What happens is that when I type normal text in those application, the text matches the current xkbmap. However the keyboard shortcuts (like Ctrl+S for saving) is not respected, and is always the same layout (fr in my case). This is really annoying, since I don't know what is causing this discrepancy between shortcuts and text typed in the application. Has anyone using different keyboard layout experienced similar issues before?