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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Application hotkeys and keyboard layouts in KDE[SOLVED]

Hi,

For as long as I use Linux, I've been annoyed by this particular trouble: change layout from en to ru, for instance, and get your hotkeys (like Ctrl-S) unresponsive. Granted, that the trouble sometimes goes - to come back later on . I tried Google, but no luck. Which is kinda funny, because any bilingual user must be all too familiar with the issue. I can't even be sure whether it's some systemwide setting or an application responsibility.

Now I've run into a something like a perfect testcase :

OpenOffice 3.0.1 and Firefox 3.0.8:

(1) In Arch the hotkeys like Ctrl-S and Ctrl-T work in both apps regardless of the keyboard layout. (KDE3 and KDE4)

(2) In Pardus the hotkeys in both apps work in en layout but do not in ru layout. (KDE3)

What is it?

Last edited by Llama (2009-04-05 13:27:48)

Llama

Banned

From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: Application hotkeys and keyboard layouts in KDE[SOLVED]

Control Center(KDE)->Keyboard Layout->Layout->Include latin layout checkbox needs to be checked. After that Command lines for the respective layouts look like

setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us
setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ru,us -variant ,winkeys

The trouble's gone.