Hi,

Is this a known issues? If I run Lazarus IDE (LCL-GTK2) on either Linux or FreeBSD, and say my keyboard layout is set to US. Now if I change the keyboard layout to say Dvorak while Lazarus IDE is open, then Lazarus IDE still uses the US layout (I think), while the rest of the OS and any running applications uses the new Dvorak layout.

I have hit this problem many times in recent weeks jumping between various Linux VM's.

To rectify the problem I have to close Lazarus IDE down, then start it up again. Then the IDE uses the right keyboard layout. It's as if LCL-GTK2 doesn't react to a keyboard layout event change from X11 or something. But other applications (also GTK2 based) like Pluma/gEdit update without problems.

Regards,
Graeme

It works here on LCL-GTK2 Ubuntu.

Mattias

Mattias Gaertner wrote

It works here on LCL-GTK2 Ubuntu.

Umm. I can give more details on the VM I see this happen the most. I'm running CentOS 6.6 using JWM window manager and have two scripts that I run to switch keyboard layouts.

Here is one such script.

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#!/bin/sh

setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -variant dvorak
===========================

How did you change the keyboard layout under Ubuntu? Via the Ubuntu keyboard applet or setxkbmap or xmodmap etc?

I'll switch my scripts to using xmodmap instead and see if that makes any difference. JWM doesn't run taskbar/panel applets (eg: networking, keyboard layout etc), so I have to do it manually via other X11 utilities.

Regards,
Graeme