Will Wayland also ship with broken keyboard layout switching?

[Bill Spitzak]

Having read the bug, it seems extremely specific to layout switching 
with shift+ctrl. However there are a lot of other identical bugs that 
prevent things that are common on Windows from working on X:

1. One post mentions that hitting the "windows" key does some action, 
but that makes it impossible to do windows+X shortcuts. On Windows 
itself the "windows" key action only happens if you press & release it 
without hitting other keys.

2. I am also aware of a nice "compose key" prefix system for Windows 
that cannot be done on X. It uses the "ctrl" keys for the compose key. 
You press & release ctrl and then type the compose sequence. However you 
cannot do this on X without breaking all the ctrl+letter shortcuts! This 
compose key prefix is a hell of a lot better than shift+altGr or 
whatever X uses, which is shameful because otherwise X is much better 
than Windows at compose.

I would propose that the key->event translator knows what keys are 
"shift" keys. You can bind actions to them. However the action is only 
triggered if the shift key is pressed & released without pressing any 
other keys in between. For all other keys the bound action is triggered 
when the key is pressed.

Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2 October 2012 17:51, Ran Benita <ran234 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, speaking of XKB bugs, there's this one which is inherent to the
>> specification:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865
>> We might want to consider some way to properly fix this?
> 
> Indeed.  I still can't think of a way to do this properly as such;
> using level 0 seems the closest to expectations, I think.  Needs some
> more practical testing though.  The main reason I didn't pursue it is
> because I think it'd end up breaking X no matter what, but it's
> something we can look at for xkbcommon.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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