Bug#352833: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#352833: xlibs: xkb no longer handles grp:shift_toggle)
Maybe it would have made sense to put a note somewhere about such
things, in my case I just found I can't type Hebrew any more and no note
to say anything about it.
Or maybe even automatic renaming of the field in the configuration file.
Baruch
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> #352833: xlibs: xkb no longer handles grp:shift_toggle,
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> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
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> Re: Bug#352833: xlibs: xkb no longer handles grp:shift_toggle
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> Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
> Date:
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> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 03:22:17PM +0000, Baruch Even wrote:
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>>Package: xlibs
>>Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4
>>Severity: normal
>>
>>*** Please type your report below this line ***
>>My configuration is using grp:shift_toggle to toggle between English and
>>Hebrew layouts. Since the last upgrade to my testing Xserver this no
>>longer works.
>>
>>Looking at the relevant file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xorg there is
>>no mention of the shift_toggle option while there is for
>>alt_shift_toggle. If I change to this, it works. But I really like the
>>double shift toggle and would like to ask to have it back.
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>
> Look a little bit closer, and you will see grp:shifts_toggle ;)
> This name change has been made for consistency reason with other
> <modifier>s_toggle definitions.
> Thanks for your report.
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> Denis
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