Comment 18 for bug 1226962

@Stephen: In Greek, the Z key happens to be on the same physical key as Z
on the US English/British physical key (Qwerty).

@Lars: GTK+ has code in
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gtk/gtkkeyhash.c so that when you
press Ctrl+A (where A is the Greek A), it will search what was supposed to
have been pressed if the first group (let's say 'keyboard layout', commonly
US English) was active. Thus, Ctrl+A (Greek Alpha) works with the GTK+ IM.

There is an issue if you happen to have two Latin keyboard layouts, such as
US English + German. Such a difficult situation is discussed at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162726.

I think the goal for 13.10 should definitely be to get the GTK+ IM
functionality working again.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Stephen M. Webb <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> @Lars
>
> A Greek keyboard does not have a physical Z key, nether does an Arabic
> or Hebrew keyboard. There are different requirements for Latin and
> non-Latin keyboards, and different requirements again for IMs like the
> various Indic or CJK entry systems. That's why it's definitely wrong to
> force ibus to run when it's explicitly configured not to.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226962
>
> Title:
> Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout
>
> Status in Indicator keyboard:
> Triaged
> Status in Unity:
> Invalid
> Status in “indicator-keyboard” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> New keyboard layout changer in Ubuntu 13.10 introduce old-new bug. Any
> system or application hotkey witch use char (for example: ctrl+alt+t for
> terminal or ctrl+t for new tab in browser) become unfunctional when
> selected non-latin keyboard layout.
> Hotkeys with F1-12, numbers and other non-character buttons works
> perfectly.
>
> Window manager hotkeys not affected by this bug. All hotkeys in system
> parameters->keyboard->hotkeys->windows works perfect with any keyboard
> layout.
>
> Workaround for some system hotkeys and two layouts (english and non-
> latin): rebind all hotkeys in your local layout. For example instead
> of ctrl+alt+t use ctrl+alt+τ (greek tau). That hotkey still work with
> english layout. If you use english and two different non-latin
> layouts this workaround helps only with one of them.
>
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