Onboard/workspace switcher

Bug #1532254 reported by Fred H Olson
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Onboard
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Bug Description

I just noticed that using Onboard to activate the Ubuntu (unity?)
workspace switcher 3 key sequence has an undesireable "feature".
I'm using Ubuntu Linux 14.04 operating system.

With a regular keyboard one holds down <control> and <alt> possibly
for a prolonged time and press an arrow key. A small window appears
as long as ctl&alt are down showing the 4 workspaces with the
destination workspace corresponding the activted workspace
highighted. One can press additional arrow keys and other
workspaces are selected/highlighted. When ctl&alt are released the
small window goes away.

With Onboard clicking ctl&alt and the correct arrow changes the
workspace but leaves the small window on screen. The only way to get
rid of the small window that I have found is to click the onboard ctl
3 times (make it red and once more). This is kind of nuisance.

Fred

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marmuta (marmuta) wrote :

Thanks, confirmed. I'll look into it.

Changed in onboard:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
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Fred H Olson (fholson) wrote : Re: [Bug 1532254] Re: Onboard/workspace switcher

On Sat, 9 Jan 2016, marmuta wrote:

> Thanks, confirmed. I'll look into it.

Great. We corresponded a year or so ago on another Onboard issue (that
required adding delay to snippets). Youall are the most responsive to
bug reports of any projects I've had contact with. I am very
impressed. Thanks for all your efforts.

Fred

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marmuta (marmuta) wrote :

Thanks, that's nice tor hear. We're trying. Total coincidence, but you picked a good time for this bug report too.

I've pushed a fix. The wall plugin didn't like that Onboard unlocks modifiers only after key events have been sent. Reversing that required a rats tail of changes to the key-release logic, meaning there might still be regressions lurking that I missed. You're welcome to help testing, i.e. basically just use it, do what you always do.

@Francesco, would you create new snapshot, please?

Changed in onboard:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Francesco Fumanti (frafu) wrote :

The snapshot is now online for the Ubuntu versions that are still supported by Canonical. Here is the corresponding PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~onboard/+archive/ubuntu/snapshots

Don't hesitate to contact us again if you see more problems.

Changed in onboard:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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