Re: Gnome Terminal and alternative keyboard layouts

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 00:10, Nickolay Kolev wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am reposting this from the XFree86 list where I didn't get any
> responses. Excuses to those subscribed to both. If I am wrong in the
> mailing list please do correct me.
> 
> I have the following problem with my RedHat 9 setup. I tried and
> successfully added a phonetic bulgarian layout to the default german
> one. Here is the snip from the XF86Config:
> 
> Option "XkbLayout" "de,bg"
> Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys,phonetic"
> Option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
> 
> This works with no problems in all Applications except for the Gnome
> Terminal, where, independent of the current layout, typing the letter F
> brings down the file menu, H the help mennu and so on, as if the Alt key
> was simultaniously pressed.
> 
> What could be wrong and what is to be done to remedy the situation?

Does the same problem not occur in other GNOME 2 application with
a menu bar? (Say, eog?)

I think this is related to:

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100439

In gnome-terminal you should be able to fix the problem simply
by turning off the menu keybindings. (Edit/keybindings)

but I'd suggest using some other method of group switch than
Alt-shift, since that will work around the problem for *all*
GTK+ 2 applications, not just gnome-terminal.

Regards,
                                            Owen