This has gotten even more annoying in 14.04, though my problem is a tad specific. I have set the keyboard shortcut “Switch to next source:” to Left Shift+Right Shift (used to be X server's default). However this have an interesting side effect in some cases: now just pressing (one) Shift key to write an upcase letter also causes a temporary lose of focus, effectively breaking some text fields – like a Twitter's compose and reply boxes mentioned by kolen. Reverting back to the default Super+Space solves this issue, even switching the keyboard on Twitter doesn't lose the focus. So apparently some shortcuts may have an unintended side effects.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244090 Title: Pressing any global keyboard shortcut causes temporary loss of focus Status in Gnome Settings Daemon: New Status in Unity Settings Daemon: New Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “unity-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: When pressing any global keyboard shourtcut (configurable via System settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts; i.e. for switching keyboard layout, volume up/down), focus temporary switches from active text input to something else, then restores back shortly. Maybe even active window loses focus, but window frame does not shows this (window header remains to look active). For example: when I press ctrl+shift here to switch keyboard layout, when writing this description, yellow frame disappears from text input box, text caret disappears too; they appear again when releasing ctrl+shift. The same occurs in all other programs, i.e. terminal. It causes serious annoyance, for example in Twitter when losing focus in Reply text box, reply rolls up and I have to click it again with mouse and set caret to correct place each time I switch keyboard layouts. Other key combinations, not only ctrl+shift, also cause this. It is especially annoying when using keyboard layout switch shortcut handled by the same subsystem (media-keys plugin): case SWITCH_INPUT_SOURCE_KEY: case SWITCH_INPUT_SOURCE_BACKWARD_KEY: do_switch_input_source_action (manager, type); break; (Original gnome-settings-daemon, from which unity-settings-daemon was forked, does not use media-keys plugin to switch keyboard layout). ---------- For other layout switching problems introduced in Ubuntu 13.10 you can see bug 1218322. ---------- ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: gnome-session 3.9.90-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Oct 24 11:42:19 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-23 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: gnome-session UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1244090/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
