Bug #162726
May 14, 2008 6:29 pm gnomeSelect All: Ctrl A: Selects all content in the current document.
Whose bright idea was it to have Ctrl-A close the current note in the version of Tomboy shipping with Ubuntu 8.04? This was a really bad idea.
Update: Owen Taylor on #gnome-hackers, and 5 minutes later Vincent Untz in a comment, hit on the answer: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162726
The upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 had installed the US layout on me, even though I have an AZERTY keyboard (which was the layout selected). So when I hit Ctrl-A, GNOME was helpfully saying that I must have really meant Ctrl-Q. This is really useful if you’re using a non-latin layout, since you can still use Latin shortcuts by installing a US keyboard layout, but if you have another Latin keyboard layout, this sucks big-time.
So, in fact, Tomboy wasn’t closing the current note, it was closing all notes (it just happens that I only ever had one note open at the time).
May 14th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
For me, CTRL+A does exactly what you’d expect — select all text. I’m running Hardy 8.04?
May 14th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Same for me.. it works like spected
May 14th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Hmm, ^A Selects the text as expected, and ^W closes the window. Maybe you pressed the wrong button?
May 14th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
xev says I’m hitting Ctrl_L+A.
Ctrl_R+A does the same thing.
Works fine in every app except Tomboy.
Weird indeed.
May 14th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Also, what made me suspect there were shenanigans going on was that when I right-click in a note, there’s no shortcut key beside “Select All”
Dave.
May 14th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
xev on the Tomboy window gives the following output when I hit Ctrl-A:
May 14th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Just a guess, but: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162726
May 14th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Yeah I had this problem some time ago with another app (xchat), hitting ctrl+a was just quitting it (and if I remember correctly, ctrl+x too).
I think that this behaviour of gnome is bad.