[kde] Bizarre custom shortcut result

[James Richard Tyrer]

Richard Fish wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have a bizarre problem binding to a particular key sequence in KDE 3.2.
> The problem is that I cannot bind any action to 'Alt+<'.  Or more 
> accurately, KDE sees "Alt+Shift+<" as "Alt+Shift+>".  I open the 
> Keyboard Shortcuts area of the Control Center, select any global action, 
> and press the "Custom" shortcut key.  I press "Alt", "Shift" and "<", 
> but binding that is captured is "Alt+>".  I've checked with xev, and all 
> of the keys are translated correctly by X.  Also, pressing "Alt", 
> "Shift", and ">" produces the same "Alt+>" shortcut.
> 
> Before I report this as a bug, would somebody try to duplicate this on 
> their system, so I know if it is just something unique to my setup?

What keyboard layout are you using?

IIRC, with some keyboard layouts: "Shift+<" is ">".

Does anybody have a French or German keyboard?

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JRT