Bug 1100

Summary: [XKB] Incorrect default key mapping for the il (Hebrew) keyboard map
Product: xorg Reporter: rlinuz
Component: * OtherAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: CLOSED NOTOURBUG QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:

Description rlinuz 2004-08-16 12:46:41 UTC
The il (Hebrew) keyboard mapping should map CTRL+<KEY> and CTRL+SHIFT+<KEY> as
it maps them for the us (English) layout. Without this mapping, common shortcut
keys, such as CTRL+A ('select-all') will not function. 

The proposed fix is the common mapping for il (Hebrew) keyboards.

For example:

Key            Current Mapping          Proposed fix
========================================================
CTRL+A         CTRL+HEBREW_SHIN         CTRL+A
.
.
.
CTRL+Z         CTRL+HEBREW_ZAIN         CTRL+Z

CTRL+SHIFT+A   CTRL+SHIFT+HEBREW_SHIN   CTRL+SHIFT+A
.
.
.
CTRL+SHIFT+Z   CTRL+SHIFT+HEBREW_ZAIN   CTRL+SHIFT+Z
Comment 1 Pablo Saratxaga 2005-03-08 08:04:14 UTC
If you load both "us" and "il" keys it will work like that;
if you load only "il" then Ctrl-A etc won't work, obviously,
as there is no <a> keysym at all.

It is not an XKB problem, rather it is a problem of the
keyboard switcher applet/program you are using (I bet you
are using KDE; if you go to KDE bug tracking you will
see various reports of that problem, about russian,
cyrillic, greek,... any non-latin layout actually).
Comment 2 Daniel Stone 2006-04-02 10:39:20 UTC
right.  you'll need to take this up with gnome and kde.

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