Colemak keyboard layout's left-hand backspace is also acting as Caps Lock
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I have installed Ubuntu with the default English (US) Qwerty keyboard layout and I added the English (Australia) Colemak keyboard layout through the Settings app (as per the screenshot attached). This is for the in-built laptop keyboard on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Touch.
The bug is that the CapsLock key, which is meant to be remapped to a Backspace key on the Colemak keyboard layout, acts as both the CapsLock AND the Backspace, when the Colemak keyboard layout is active. This means that backspacing a single time deletes a single character AND also toggles Caps Lock.
The expected behaviour is that the key acts only as Backspace when the Colemak keyboard layout is active.
The output of π‘ππππ -ππππ | ππππ ππΊπ± is
_ππΊπ±_πππ»π΄π_
I hope a fix can be found soon :)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckR
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 19 17:34:44 2021
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: focal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 [8086:5916] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Lenovo HD Graphics 620 [17aa:224e]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-10-09 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210819)
MachineType: LENOVO 20JDA00CAU
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/17/2021
dmi.bios.release: 1.41
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: N1NET54W (1.41 )
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 20JDA00CAU
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: SDK0K17763 WIN
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 31
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.ec.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.family: ThinkPad
dmi.product.name: 20JDA00CAU
dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.105-3~20.04.2
version.
version.
version.
version.
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I have since found that executing in Terminal, the command
π‘ππππππ -π "πππππ π»πππ"
is a temporary workaround to fix this behaviour; however, I would definitely think this issue should be fixed so it works out-of-the-box for new users.
It's a very problematic behaviour for one's primary backspace to be also toggling caps lock, affecting daily typing.