Cannot enter a caret after Ubuntu upgrade
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 8:19 pm
Hi,
I was on Ubuntu 18.04 with the Cinnamon desktop and a Swedish-configured keyboard on a Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th gen laptop. Today, I upgraded to 18.10 and noticed that I lost the ability to produce a caret character (^) in oXygen Editor, version 20.1 (the latest build, fetched today). It gives me a space instead. On a Swedish keyboard it's produced by hitting Shift+^ (that is, the key with ^ shifted) followed by a space. This still works in other apps, from browsers to Sublime Text. So far I've only confirmed that it stopped working in oXygen. I've also lost ~, probably because it's also entered as AltGr+~ followed by Space, and every other character I know of that are entered in the same way.
If I reboot to the default Gnome desktop, I can enter a caret in oXygen, all of a sudden, but now it produces first an underlined caret, and then, when I hit Space, a real caret without the underline. If I don't hit Space, the underlined caret vanishes.
I also have Plasma Desktop installed, and it gives me the same problem as Cinnamon - no "shift-spaced" characters.
Needless to say, this all worked before the upgrade.
Now, I realise this is probably not an oXygen problem alone, but I was hoping you might have some ideas or pointers, and I'm betting I'm not the only one to run oXygen on a foreign keyboard. I've not configured my keyboard in any special way, just selected Swedish as the input language when first installing Ubuntu on the laptop.
Thanks, as ever, for a fabulous XML editor.
Best,
/Ari
I was on Ubuntu 18.04 with the Cinnamon desktop and a Swedish-configured keyboard on a Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th gen laptop. Today, I upgraded to 18.10 and noticed that I lost the ability to produce a caret character (^) in oXygen Editor, version 20.1 (the latest build, fetched today). It gives me a space instead. On a Swedish keyboard it's produced by hitting Shift+^ (that is, the key with ^ shifted) followed by a space. This still works in other apps, from browsers to Sublime Text. So far I've only confirmed that it stopped working in oXygen. I've also lost ~, probably because it's also entered as AltGr+~ followed by Space, and every other character I know of that are entered in the same way.
If I reboot to the default Gnome desktop, I can enter a caret in oXygen, all of a sudden, but now it produces first an underlined caret, and then, when I hit Space, a real caret without the underline. If I don't hit Space, the underlined caret vanishes.
I also have Plasma Desktop installed, and it gives me the same problem as Cinnamon - no "shift-spaced" characters.
Needless to say, this all worked before the upgrade.
Now, I realise this is probably not an oXygen problem alone, but I was hoping you might have some ideas or pointers, and I'm betting I'm not the only one to run oXygen on a foreign keyboard. I've not configured my keyboard in any special way, just selected Swedish as the input language when first installing Ubuntu on the laptop.
Thanks, as ever, for a fabulous XML editor.
Best,
/Ari