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Bug 555591 - change default layout toggle option
change default layout toggle option
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Keyboard
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-10-08 18:44 UTC by Matthias Clasen
Modified: 2010-04-18 23:44 UTC
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Attachments
patch (728 bytes, patch)
2008-10-08 18:45 UTC, Matthias Clasen 		none Details | Review

Description Matthias Clasen 2008-10-08 18:44:09 UTC 
Recent xkeyboard-config versions have a bug that makes combinations like alt-alt or ctrl-ctrl not work. 

I'll attach a patch that changes the default combination to shift-capslock
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2008-10-08 18:45:33 UTC 
Created attachment 120220 [details] [review]
patch

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465403 for more information
Comment 2 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2008-10-08 19:01:04 UTC 
Shift-Caps would win the price for most non-obvious combination. Well, I am not insisting on alt-alt, but I'd prefer something else... In the worst case, we can use (like in MSWin) Alt-Shift, but it is so Microsoftish...
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2008-11-09 18:38:44 UTC 
I don't care what is chosen. But we should choose something that works.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2010-03-10 12:00:42 UTC 
Sergey, we've shipped that patch for more than a year and a half in Fedora, could we have closure on this bug?
Comment 5 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2010-03-11 21:32:29 UTC 
Bastien, is there any explanation, why do you prefer to have Shift+Caps (as I said, quite non-obvious)?
Comment 6 Bastien Nocera 2010-04-11 17:41:09 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Bastien, is there any explanation, why do you prefer to have Shift+Caps (as I
> said, quite non-obvious)?

Matthias made the change, not me. But the point is that Alt+Alt doesn't work. Anything that work would be better than the current default.
Comment 7 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2010-04-18 23:44:08 UTC 
ok. You convinced me.
fixed in libgnomekbd (there is a shared function now)