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Bug 659180 - On screen keyboard lacks control key
On screen keyboard lacks control key
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: keyboard
3.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 735783 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-15 19:27 UTC by Guido Günther
Modified: 2019-02-27 19:46 UTC
See Also:
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Description Guido Günther 2011-09-15 19:27:20 UTC 
As far as I can tell the new on screen keyboard doesn't have a control key. Having this would be great for keyboard short cuts and quick navigation in text boxes (ctrl-a, ctrl-e), opening new tabs, etc.

Speaking of that I wonder if alt and cursor keys would be useful too? There seems to be plenty of space available in the current layout.
Comment 1 Dan Winship 2011-09-27 18:49:57 UTC 
you can get a few more keys by doing

  gsettings set org.gnome.shell.keyboard keyboard-type fullscale

though generally the theory is that you're not going to use the OSK for shortcuts, you're only going to use it to type text.

I had started some work on a full keyboard (using xkb to get the full layout). I need to dump that into bugzilla...
Comment 2 Dan Winship 2011-09-28 14:59:14 UTC 
caribou+xkb bug is bug 660368
Comment 3 Guido Günther 2011-11-12 07:06:03 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> you can get a few more keys by doing
> 
>   gsettings set org.gnome.shell.keyboard keyboard-type fullscale

This looks great in general but doesn't use more space to the left and right but makes the current keys smaller. Do we have a bug to track screen usage of the keyboard?

> 
> though generally the theory is that you're not going to use the OSK for
> shortcuts, you're only going to use it to type text.

I mostly agree here but I'd be nice to be able to add some keys to extra screen space available. Especially keys that ease navigation in text like "jump to beginning of line", "jump to end of line" are very useful when e.g. entering/modifying. URLs. 

Maybe I'm tackling this all wrong and the extra screen space shouldn't be filled with "classic" keys and modifiers but with keys having a certing function already: easing navigation in text (jump word left, jump word right, jump to beginning of line, jump to end of line). The use case I'm looking at is larger screens without a keyboard so "pointing" at the place where you want to enter the text is cumbersome since you'd  have to move your arm a lot.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2014-09-02 13:44:37 UTC 
*** Bug 735783 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Matthias Clasen 2014-09-02 15:29:12 UTC 
Arrow keys make a lot of sense to navigate around in an entry. 

Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-X are all very useful, basic editing shortcuts. One could argue that these actions should just be represented as such on the osk...
Comment 6 Florian Müllner 2019-02-27 19:46:53 UTC 
Moving to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/181.