X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 10:47:18 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: mintty randomly switches keyboard-layout From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 1 May 2012 10:32, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > Hi, > > I notice quite often that my german keyboard-layout in mintty gets changed > into an english one. Alt-F8 (Reset) does not bring back the german layout, > so I can only exit and restart mintty. I think it mostly happens when doing > Copy/Paste-operations using Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins but I'm not sure about this. > > Is there a way to avoid this or to reset the layout back to german? > > I'm using mintty 1.0.3 on cygwin 1.7.13. I'd suspect a system-wide shortcut for switching keyboard layout. Those are well hidden in the Control Panel, under 'Region and Languages -> Keyboard and Languages -> Change Keyboard -> Advanced Key Settings' (on an English Windows 7). Looks like the default shortcut for switching between input languages is 'Left Alt + Shift', which might collide with shortcuts in terminal applications. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple