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Switchboard Keyboard Plug
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Cannot use alt+shift accelerator when assigning shortcuts #387

Closed Kethen closed 1 year ago

Kethen commented 3 years ago

What Happened

cannot create keyboard shortcuts with alt+shirt+any key

Expected Behavior

much like switch to previous window key, alt+shirt+tab is the default shortcut (interestingly that doesn't work but that's not the scope of this bug report), so alt+shift+any key should be allowed

Steps to Reproduce

  1. select an item to assign a shortcut
  2. hit alt, then shift, then number 1 for example
  3. alt+1 is assigned

alternatively

  1. select an item to assign a shortcut
  2. hit shift, then alt, then number 1 for example
  3. shift+! is assigned

Workaround

alt+shift seems to be occupied by switching keyboard layout by default, disable keyboard layout switching then re-login fixes the issue

Platform Information

elementary OS 6 Odin

jeremypw commented 3 years ago

This looks equivalent to #270 where I suggested the same work around.

jeremypw commented 3 years ago

I wonder whether Gala could be patched so that if there is only one keyboard layout then Alt + Shift is not intercepted? Need to check whether there is an issue outstanding on Gala.

jeremypw commented 3 years ago

A quick look into patching Gala was not encouraging - this behaviour seems to be due to the behaviour of the underlying Mutter library so upstream patching is required I guess. The best we can do is to automatically disable the layout switch when there is only one layout. May need to patch the installer as well.

rgbmew commented 2 years ago

Having a similar problem, although with a Super+Shift, instead of Alt+Shift. I'm trying to set my screenshot hotkey to Shift+Super+4, and it doesn't work at all. Shift+4 and Super+4 both work on their own, but I can't get Super+Shift+4, specifically, working. It's been a huge pain in my butt recently, I use a mechanical Mac keyboard, and instead of the Printscreen button being the literal Printscreen input, it's the Mac Printscreen shortcut, Command+Shift+4. Side note; I also think it's sort of odd how mapping a shortcut with Shift will also map the other key as being Shifted. For example, the Shift+4 hotkey will map as Shift+$. Not really a "problem," just sort of distracting.

lenemter commented 1 year ago

Closing in favor of https://github.com/elementary/gala/issues/1261.