[kde] Bizarre custom shortcut result

[James Richard Tyrer]

Richard Fish wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>> 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 ">".
> 
> 
> 
> I'm using keyboard model "HP Internet Keyboard" with the "US English" 
> layout, so '<' is actually produced with "Shift-,", and '>' is produced 
> with "Shift-.".

Actually, I meant which one you had selected in software.

> So in reality, I should have written above "...KDE sees both 
> 'Alt+Shift+,' and 'Alt+Shift+.' as 'Alt->'.  It is important to note 
> that I see this with _only_ the keybinding dialog.  '<' and '>' are 
> generated correctly for every other KDE application and input.  
> Addtionally, 'Alt+Shift+,' produces no characters in any other KDE 
> application.

But, since these type correctly for the US layout, this must be a bug.  I 
would suspect that somehow the shorcut bindings have the layout wrong.

However, I have some 3.2.2 installed from CVS and it appears to work for 
me.  So, I wouldn't file a bug report till you upgrade to 3.2.2.

--
JRT