Cannot switch keyboard layout

[Dotan Cohen]

On 18/09/2007, D. Michael McIntyre <michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com> wrote:
> On Monday 17 September 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > In any case, why can I not configure Alt+Shift to switch layouts? I've
>
> It was an interesting quest.  I tried hacking the "kdeglobals" file to put
> Alt+Shift in by hand, since it was impossible to arrive at that using only
> the GUI.
>
> No dice.  I can't figure it out.  It seems this mechanism simply considers
> shift and alt to be modifier keys, and they can only be used in conjunction
> with a non-modifier key.
>
> I don't guess it has to be that way, but I don't know where to begin hacking
> to try to change this.  KDE?  X11?  Something else?
>
> Seems to me your friend is going to have to get over it.  May I suggest
> something like Alt+Shift+Space or Alt+Shift+Z that's easy to whack with one
> hand?

No dice. I've got her on Gnome for now, but we both dislike Gnome. The
keyboard shortcut is _that_ important. Yes, Gnome works with
Shift+Alt.

> I know the kind of user you're dealing with.  I'm glad to be rid of the last
> of mine, to be honest about it.  Except my wife, actually.  She grew up on
> Linux though, so when I put Vista on her machine to play with (long story)
> she was totally pissed off about Windows having everything where she couldn't
> find it in plain sight.  She DEMANDED that I expunge that madness
> immediately, and switch her back to Kubuntu.
>
> I complied.  :)
>
> Anyway, sorry I failed my little quest.  On the bright side, I've been using
> KDE since 2.1, and I never once investigated the keyboard shortcut
> configuration bit.  I've been changing layouts with the damn icon for years
> (on Windows too.)  If I had a nickel for every pointless mouse motion...

Bug filed:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149958

Dotan Cohen

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