[Dx-packages] [Bug 1226962] Re: Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout

2013-09-24 Thread Simos Xenitellis
@Stephen: In Greek, the Z key happens to be on the same physical key as Z on the US English/British physical key (Qwerty). @Lars: GTK+ has code in https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gtk/gtkkeyhash.c so that when you press Ctrl+A (where A is the Greek A), it will search what was supposed to hav

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1226962] Re: Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout

2013-09-23 Thread Simos Xenitellis
A workaround to get shortcuts in non-Latin scripts to work again is to kill any IBus processes. I killed /usr/bin/ibus-daemon --replace --xim --panel disable /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-dconf /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-x11 --kill-daemon /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-engine-simple and then I could "Select All", or start "Al

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1226962] Re: Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout

2013-09-23 Thread Simos Xenitellis
I am using 13.10 (latest updates) and I have configured the layouts US English, Greek, Russian. I started "gedit" (core GTK+ app) and I switch keyboard layout to Greek. 1. I typed some text in Greek. Then, pressed Ctrl+A (Select All) but nothing happened. Instead, the whole text should have been

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1205713] Re: unable to type Greek characters to the dash

2013-09-21 Thread Simos Xenitellis
@BrandonSchaefer: Could you please have a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1228422 I think we got major regressions from this change. In a nutshell, IBus does not support features that we have been used to, when we were using the GTK+ IM. For example, accelerators an

[Dx-packages] [Bug 1228422] [NEW] Severe regressions to typing in Greek, Russian, etc due to IBus

2013-09-20 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Public bug reported: For the last several versions of Ubuntu, there was an inability to type Greek (or many non-latin scripts) in the Dash. With bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1205713 the problem has been fixed, and it got fixed by enabling IBus for Greek, Russian and