[Bug 1137800] [NEW] Cannot swap win/control keys in settings

[Reuben Firmin]

Public bug reported:

I use OSX at work, so I bought a logitech keyboard made for macs to use
at home so that the keys are in a consistent position. Rather than try
to bend OSX to my will, I though it would be easier to map the keys in
KDE to the OSX positions; however this does not seem to be possible.

The "windows" key (keycode 133, left of the spacebar) is the equivalent
of the control key in OSX. I would like to switch it and left control
(keycode 37) so that all applicaitons follow the new layout. (Both my
IDE and KDE allows fine grained shortcut remapping, but I also need the
keymap to apply in the browser, etc - so the KDE settings should be
flexible enough to allow this.)

Current relevant options are:

Control is mapped to Win keys (and the usual Ctrl Keys)  -- this gets me
halfway there, but leaves me with only two special keys on the left,
since key 133 becomes a duplicate of key 37.

Left ctrl as Meta -- if this overrode the parentheses of the previous
option, the combination of these two settings would be a workable
configuration; however it does not -- with both selected, keys 64 and 37
are both mapped to Alt_L.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: systemsettings 4:4.9.4-0ubuntu0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-22.34-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-22-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar  1 08:29:53 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-09 (81 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kde-workspace
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: kde-workspace (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 quantal

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