[GNC] Strange keyboard behaviour with new version

Stephen M. Butler kg7je at arrl.net
Wed Feb 13 13:08:29 EST 2019


On 2/13/19 6:18 AM, Adam Funk 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam


Others have reported problems with dependencies on that build when
installing on 18.10.

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