[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#600860: (Upstream) Issue 59922: Ignore gnome keyboard settings (XF86Back)

[Jonathan Nieder]

forwarded 600860 http://crbug.com/59922
retitle 600860 chromium-browser: does not notice keyboard layout change
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Hi Marco,

Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:

> Behavior in Linux Firefox:
> When I switch the keyboard layout, the key that used to be XF86Back,
> now works as Control_R.
>
> 1. Use a keyboard layout that changes XF86Back key to Control_R, like:
>    http://marcot.eti.br/data/etc/br_nt .
> 2. Press this key in Google Chrome.
>
> What is the expected result?
> It should work as Control_R.
>
> What happens instead?
> It works as XF86Back.

Could you give a step-by-step recipe for reproducing this?  In
particular, I am not sure how to load the br_nt layout --- what
program do you use, and does it matter whether chromium is open at
that point?

Thanks,
Jonathan