Ubuntu – Shortcut keys and other issues with certain gtk apps on Wayland

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It seems a very common issue and I'm stunned reading that WON'T FIX!

Briefly, I noted that global shortcut keys (such as Ctrl+Space I use to call my favourite launcher) doesn't work when focus is on certain applications windows (gnome-terminal or gedit, for example) but only when I'm running Wayland.

Moreover, if I use xfce4-panel and the window buttons element, the button won't appear for the same apps.

With other apps (chromium, thunderbird, synapse, for example) both issues are not presenting.

https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert/issues/309

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214318

Best Answer

And what do you want to say?

Bug with global shortcuts is known on launchpad as bug 1244090.

Keyboard bug for Ctrl+Shift+c, Ctrl+Shift+v and so on is reported to launchpad as bug 1245473.

Also there is another problem with non-latin shortcuts - it is known as launchpad bug 1226962.

Also users want to set Alt+Shift or Ctrl+ Shift as keyboard layout switcher as in launchpad bug 1218322 but can do this only from GNOME Tweaks.

Myself I found only one resolution - I'll stay on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS MATE until 2021 year (really 2019 because it's Ubuntu flavor).

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