On 1 May 2012 10:32, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > Hi, > > I notice quite often that my german keyboard-layout in mintty gets changed > into an english one. Alt-F8 (Reset) does not bring back the german layout, > so I can only exit and restart mintty. I think it mostly happens when doing > Copy/Paste-operations using Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins but I'm not sure about this. > > Is there a way to avoid this or to reset the layout back to german? > > I'm using mintty 1.0.3 on cygwin 1.7.13.
I'd suspect a system-wide shortcut for switching keyboard layout. Those are well hidden in the Control Panel, under 'Region and Languages -> Keyboard and Languages -> Change Keyboard -> Advanced Key Settings' (on an English Windows 7). Looks like the default shortcut for switching between input languages is 'Left Alt + Shift', which might collide with shortcuts in terminal applications. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
