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Bug 347156

Summary:	[KeyBindings] Ctrl+Alt+<something> keyboard binding is activated also by Alt+<something> keys.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Radoslaw Jozwik <rjozwik>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, prakash, tomasz.zarna
Version:	3.6.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Radoslaw Jozwik

2011-05-25 09:51:38 EDT

Build Identifier: M20110210-1200

When I bind some action to (for example) Ctrl+Alt+l then clicking on Alt+l will also activate this action. This behaviour disallows writing certain national characters inside Eclipse editor which are normally activated with Alt+<something> key binding.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bind Ctrl+Alt+l key to "About" command.
2. Open any text editor and hold down Alt+l key.
3. "About" window will show up.

Comment 1 Radoslaw Jozwik

2011-05-25 11:39:59 EDT

I forgot to mention that in this case I'm using right Alt (Alt Gr) and that Subversive is by default using such conflicting key bindings.

Comment 2 Oleg Besedin

2011-05-25 11:51:24 EDT

I can not duplicate it with either 3.6.2 or 3.7. 

Can you try with a regular keyboard on a clean setup?

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2011-05-25 11:57:09 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> I can not duplicate it with either 3.6.2 or 3.7. 
I cannot reproduce either.

Comment 4 Radoslaw Jozwik

2011-05-26 15:48:11 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > I can not duplicate it with either 3.6.2 or 3.7. 
> I cannot reproduce either.

Probably both of you don't use system with polish keyboard layout. I've tested this on clean Eclipse install (eclipse-SDK-3.6.2-win32.zip without any additional plugins) and I can reproduce this problem. Currently only workaround I have for this is to unbind all conflicting key bindings.

Digging a little more I've tested other apps like Gimp (works as expected) and VLC (has similar problem - I can't bind Ctrl+Alt+l or any other special characters like Ctrl+Alt+s, Ctrl+Alt+e). I can try to test other Java based desktop apps if this will help you.

Comment 5 Dani Megert

2011-05-27 02:35:56 EDT

Tomek, maybe one of you has a Polish keyboard and can confirm this?

Comment 6 Tomasz Zarna

2011-05-27 06:22:30 EDT

(In reply to comment #5)
> Tomek, maybe one of you has a Polish keyboard and can confirm this?

I20110523-0800: After I've set the binding as in comment 0, and pressed Right Alt + L the dialog popped out (not expected).

Comment 7 Dani Megert

2011-05-27 06:25:00 EDT

Can you check whether it is a regression?

Comment 8 Tomasz Zarna

2011-05-27 06:51:11 EDT

I've checked 3.6.0 (I20100608-0911) and 3.4.0 (I20080617-2000) and I'm still able to reproduce.

Comment 9 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 02:13:44 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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