[GNC] Strange keyboard behaviour with new version

[Adam Funk]

On 2019-02-13, Geert Janssens wrote:

> Op woensdag 13 februari 2019 12:49:46 CET schreef Adam Funk:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 a little over a month
>> ago.  I think the gnucash version changed from 2.6.19 to 3.3 (Ubuntu
>> package versions 1:2.6.19-1 to 1:3.3-2).  At first it crashed every
>> time, but I used a xim workaround like this to get it running.
>> 
>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnucash/+bug/1790388>
>> 
>> 
>> Since then, I've been getting weird behaviour if I have some
>> highlighted/selected text in a field (especially the transaction and
>> memo fields) and try to use the arrow, home, or end keys.  For
>> example, previously, if I typed a few letters & let it autocomplete, I
>> could press the end key to deselect the automatically generated text
>> and move the cursor to the end of the field.  Now it does nothing, so
>> I have to take my hand off the keyboard to use the mouse.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>> 
> There have been additional keyboard fixes in gnucash 3.4 which I believe may 
> fix your problem. So my suggestion: find a way to install gnucash 3.4.

I see that what will be Ubuntu 19.04 has gnucash 3.4.  I'll see how
much hassle (dependency tweaking) it is too install that manually; if
it's too much trouble now, this will give me an incentive to upgrade
to 19.04 promptly rather than late.

Thanks,
Adam