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vordoo

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[SOLVED] Keyboard grp:shift_toggle stoped working

After gazillion years,

setxkbmap -option grp:shift_toggle # Press both Shift keys at the same time to switch layout.

Stopped working. It is not a valid option anymore .

There are a lot of other options see: Complete reference to "setxbkmap -option".

But:

1. Was that option really just dropped like that?
2. With grp:alt_shift_toggle, in Greek (gr), bash loses the Alt-d: delete word forward, as it is mapped to the "`" character instaed. Probably can live with that, but wondering if there are better/more popular options.
3. "man setxkbmap", does not show the options, can they be found anywhere else on the system?

Thank!

Last edited by vordoo (2022-09-09 14:38:36)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard grp:shift_toggle stoped working

"man setxkbmap", does not show the options, can they be found anywhere else on the system?

man xkeyboard-config

I think you want grp:shifts_toggle

Last edited by Trilby (2022-09-08 23:12:18)

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vordoo

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard grp:shift_toggle stoped working

Thank for the man page:  setxkbmap -option grp:shifts_toggle is listed as an option but does not work on my box. It was working for a log time with: grp:shift_toggle, without the S...

Last edited by vordoo (2022-09-09 14:34:57)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard grp:shift_toggle stoped working

grp:shift_toggle

I think the canonical for is shiftS since ~2005, but if that version doesn't work either, that's probably not the problem at all.

setxkbmap -print -query

Also, do you have another keyboard?

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vordoo

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard grp:shift_toggle stoped working

My bad. Looks like grp:shifts_toggle, with_S, does work. Did not methodically Clear the options: setxkbmap -option, before each test.

The fact that  grp:alt_shift_toggle, works OK without the clear beforehand, as well as that grp:shift_toggle, without_S, worked OK up to a few days ago, is a conundrum. As you wrote, looks like grp:shift_toggle without_S is deprecated, or maybe was not a documented option at all.

Thanks a million!

Last edited by vordoo (2022-09-09 14:32:09)

smoneck

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard grp:shift_toggle stoped working

Strange. Same story here after a full system upgrade (the last one was before this thread was created).

-option 'grp:shift_toggle'

stopped working but

-option 'grp:shifts_toggle'

does. Thank you for the hint!