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Title: Change of keyboard's layout in Windows not affecting shortcuts?
Post by: Piotr Dobrogost on Thu, 19 September 2013, 16:10:31

I'm learning Workman layout but I noticed shortcuts still use the same physical keys they used in QWERTY.
How can I fix this so that shortcuts would be aware of currently active layout?
I'm on Windows and I created Workman layout using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4

After googling I found only this: http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/threads/272875/keyboard-layout-change-not-affecting-shortcuts

Title: Re: Keyboard Layout Change not affecting shortcuts?
Post by: Piotr Dobrogost on Thu, 19 September 2013, 17:27:29

Searching for Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator shortcut did the trick. I found the solution at http://www.sensefulsolutions.com/2010/08/how-to-fix-keyboard-shortcuts-in-klc-eg.html I hope someone will find it useful.

Title: Re: Keyboard Layout Change not affecting shortcuts?
Post by: Oobly on Fri, 20 September 2013, 02:35:31

Great find! I am sure this will be helpful.

Title: Re: Keyboard Layout change not affecting shortcuts?
Post by: davkol on Fri, 20 September 2013, 16:38:36

FWIW something similar can happen when using KDE Plasma Desktop Workspace. If you change the active layout on the go, shortcuts will still be mapped to the default layout. Maybe it has been fixed in some newer release. However, I think it could be a nice feature in case (a) you're adapting to a new layout, but you haven't had time to adapt your muscle memory for hotkeys and your productivity suffers because of that; (b) you're using some app with QWERTY-centric shortcuts (or Vim, heh); (c) someone changes you your layout as a prank.

Title: Re: Keyboard Layout change not affecting shortcuts?
Post by: Piotr Dobrogost on Fri, 20 September 2013, 17:00:02

Quote from: davkol on Fri, 20 September 2013, 16:38:36

FWIW something similar can happen when using KDE Plasma Desktop Workspace.

Googling for qt shortcut keyboard layout bug brings many bugs regarding this both in KDE and in Qt itself.

Title: Re: Keyboard Layout change not affecting shortcuts?
Post by: davkol on Fri, 20 September 2013, 17:07:00

Quote from: Piotr Dobrogost on Fri, 20 September 2013, 17:00:02

Quote from: davkol on Fri, 20 September 2013, 16:38:36

FWIW something similar can happen when using KDE Plasma Desktop Workspace.

Googling for qt shortcut keyboard layout bug brings many bugs regarding this both in KDE and in Qt itself.

Half of them appear to be more about Qt widget layouts, though. I think this (http://helgo.net/simon/hacking/shortcut.html) is what we're talking about.

Title: Re: Change of keyboard's layout in Windows not affecting shortcuts?
Post by: Piotr Dobrogost on Fri, 20 September 2013, 17:07:28

It seems like there are other problems with shortcuts after changing layout - http://superuser.com/questions/282471/ctrlshiftf-not-working-in-putty-when-using-a-modified-keyboard-layout-on-win-7 (http://superuser.com/questions/282471/ctrlshiftf-not-working-in-putty-when-using-a-modified-keyboard-layout-on-win-7)