Pasting using Ctrl-V does not work

[MaxG87]

On both Debian Testing and Debian Stable (pre-2.39) I cannot paste text using Ctrl-V. I can do so using Shift-Insert, but that is a bit more inconvenient.

[dariogoetz]

I failed to reproduce the issue on a fresh Debian Testing installation in a Virtualbox (see also issue #8). Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V work just fine there.

Maybe your desktop environment (GNOME/KDE/...) is doing something behind the scenes? What desktop environment or window manager are you using?

[MaxG87]

While the issue described in #8 could not be reproduced on another machine, this one can.

edit: Albeit #8 resolved on its own, this one is still reproducible on the original notebook.

On Debian Testing, using KDE 5.X on X11 from the normal repositories, Ctrl-V does not work using this layout file.

[dariogoetz]

I can reproduce the issue with KDE.

I did some playing around and it seems to be some issue that is inherent to all neo-based layouts. It is, however, something that happens before the actual key mapping happens: Presses of the key on which the noted layout puts the v (on QWERTZ y, ond neo2 ü) are somehow treated differently.

You can try this out by running showkey -a and then pressing that key (v on the noted layout). It will not give any output. The same happens when selecting any neo-based layout on that key.

When logging with xev, pressing the (noted-)v gives FocusOut, FocusIn, and KeymapNotify events. Some googling around leads me to believe that some KDE process grabs whatever keyboard event there is for a shortcut or so. This does not happen in Openbox, LXDE and Gnome.

I am not really sure how to address this myself, to be honest. I will try playing around a little more, but don't get your hopes up too much :/

[dariogoetz]

The issue indeed seems to be an KDE global hotkey. Please try the following if it can resolve the issue for you:

There is a file called ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc. In it, you should find an entry

[kded5]
Show System Activity=Ctrl+Esc,none,Systemaktivität anzeigen

(or similarly with your language)

Replace the Ctrl+Esc by none and then reload KDE or restart KDE's global hotkey service with kquitapp5 kglobalaccel && sleep 2s && kglobalaccel5 &. Then Ctrl+V should work again.

I guess that under the hood, xkb does something using Escape when doing its multi-level modifier magic for the neo families layouts.

[MaxG87]

Amazing! Thank you to find that out.

I fixed it by going through KDE's settings. I removed the shortcut ("Kurzbefehl") of KDE Daemon in the corresponding subpage.

Would you welcome if I contributed a troubleshooting section to the README?

[dariogoetz]

I surely would, thank you :)