Re: [Usability] [Fwd: Alt-Shift keyboard group switching]

[Lennart Borgman <lennart borgman 073 student lu se>]

Whatabout sticky keys in these situations?


Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> Hello
>
> This is not GNOME, it is X Window which handles the switching. And I'm
> afraid it would be not trivial (I have doubts it is possible at all)
> to change the behavior here. IIRC the tradition to perform actions on
> the key press (not release) goes back in history - to early X days...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sergey
>
> > On (all) Windows default key combination to switching keyboard group is
> > Alt-Shift. It's very convenient for fingers. So I activated it in Gnome.
> > But on Windows the switching take place only when you press and release
> > this combination. For example when I use Eclipse (on Windows) I use Alt-Shift-J for
> > running Java program and keyboard group remains same (additional problem
> > is on my Gentoo when I must press for example M-? I must press Alt-Shift-J instead of
> > Alt-Shift in gnome terminal even in pure text console. I don't know
> > why). But in Gnome just pressing this combination switches group. I
> > searched for any reasonable option on  "Keyboard Layout Options" in
> > "Preferences->Keyboard Preferences" but I didn't found anything.
> > Thx