[GNC] Strange keyboard behaviour with new version

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 14:34, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Even less hassle to use the deb file Stephen built for us

Colin