https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453506
Bug ID: 453506
Summary: Need to kick hotkeys on release, not press
Product: kwin
Version: 5.24.4
Platform: Manjaro
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: wayland-generic
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: chibiry...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
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Key combinations are consumed on press, not on release which leads to inability
to activate some combinations at all.
Let's say that I have 2 languages/layouts installed and I want my hotkey be
CTRL+SHIFT to switch them. I will be unable to do any combination that has
CTRL+SHIFT in it, like CTRL+SHIFT+S (Save as... in Kate) or
CTRL+SHIFT+CURSOR_ARROW to select words one by one in a text, for example.
Basically, it's a copy of this ancient xorg bug which will never be fixed
upstream:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/258
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Have 2 languages/layouts installed
2. Make them switch using hotkey CTRL+SHIFT
3. Open Kate and type "The quick brown dog"
4. CTRL+SHIFT+<- (LEFT ARROW) to select the last word
5. Type "fox"
OBSERVED RESULT
The layout had been switched on the 4 step (before you pressed an arrow,
because the hotkey was consumed on press) and there was no word selection,
instead of "fox" you typed some other symbols in another language/layout,
resulting in a sentence "The quick brown ащчdog" (Cyrillic symbols for example)
EXPECTED RESULT
Layout switching didn't occur, you selected the word "dog" and it was replaced
with newly typed "fox", resulting in a sentence "The quick brown fox"
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.15.32-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I was very disappointed in finding out that this behaviour is present in
wayland, because I was convinced that this would be fixed there from the start
(there are a couple of posts about it dating 10 or so years ago), since it's
basic and core functionality that was present on windows forever (and in many
linux distros for a long time when maintainers just silently patched xorg by
default). I'm not sure if it's a KWin issue or just Wayland, but there's was a
similar Weston bug reported in the git some time ago, so I assumed it had to do
with a compositor.
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