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

["Sergey Udaltsov" <sergey udaltsov gmail com>]

IIRC sticky keys is a special case in XKB.

Sergey

On 3/9/07, Lennart Borgman <lennart borgman 073 student lu se> wrote:
> 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