Eclipse: Ctrl + Shift +? hotkeys on Linux / KDE?

Question

I recently installed Eclipse Helios (Java Developers Edition, vanilla from www.eclipse.org ) on my Arch Linux / KDE 4 computer to help navigate a large Java project. The problem is that many key bindings in Eclipse tend to use Ctrl + Shift as a modifier, and this is the same combination that I use to switch keyboard layouts. That way, if I press , say, Ctrl + Shift + T , I don't see the Open Type dialog box; Cyrillic 'e' is simply inserted into the editor (this is the same as if I pressed Ctrl + Shift , then T ).

I know that I can change the key bindings (for both Eclipse and the layout switch), but maybe someone knows how to make Ctrl + Shift work in a setting similar to mine?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

One workaround (associated with changing key bindings in Eclipse, but in a way that you might not have considered) is described in bug 239690 :

I found a workaround for Eclipse 3.4.
Just by tying the corresponding hotkey in the Russian layout to the same command.

For example, for the "Save" command.
Menu Window -> Preferences -> Keys , find " Save ", press " Copy command ", switch to the Russian layout and press the desired key combination in the " Binding " field (this was Ctrl+Ы in my case, the standard keyboard and windows - layout cp1251)

More generally, this hotkey / keyboard layout issue is tracked in bug 61190 , and a patch has recently been sent.