Undo shortcut CTRL+Z not working

Technical Issues and Assistance
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#1

Hi all,

Hopefully third one is the lucky one :slight_smile: So I'm having quite some troubles with the undo shortcut CTRL+Z. I first created this thread, and afterwards this.

Essentially, when I press this key combination, nothing happens. I tried several editors Kate, CLion, PyCharm, Chrome, etc. My global setting is set correctly, and all of the application menu buttons also point to the same shortcut. I've used xev to inspect what happens under the hood when keys are pressed. There I noticed some strange behavior. When any CTRL+<key> combination is pressed, there's the standard output of CTRL press, <key> press, <key> release, CTRL release, while in the case of CTRL+Z that is not the case. In the following screenshot please find the outputs of xev on CTRL+C and CTRL+Z.

I really hope that someone can help me with this one... It's quite frustrating doing anything without the undo shortcut...

shortcuts

#2

You've said this has happened in many editors. Is it global? Like, could you use CTRL+Z in the Application Launcher or your web browser?

#3

Yes, it seems to be global. I don't know what is the expected behavior in Application Launcher, but in web browser (Chrome and Firefoex), when in all of the text boxes, it still does not perform undo. I tested it also in this text box where I wrote the answer.

#4

To be honest i don't know why you opened a new topic to cover the same thing, but ...
As i told you on the other post, where you find the shortcut ... It would be sensible logical, did you try to create an Alternate shortcut and see if that works? Have you tried a TEST (new user) and see if the same thing happens? Do you have the switching layout policy set to Global, Desktop, Application or Window?

#5

I created a new topic since the previous ones got stale, and no one replied to my answers...

So I did find the shortcut in the settings menu, and it was set to CTRL+Z, as I replied in previous post. I also tested undo with another shortcut (ALT+Z), and it did work in some applications that used global shortcuts. PyCharm and Chrome for example still have CTRL+Z assigned for undo. Also I wouldn't be comfortable changing the shortcut in all of the apps.

Switching layout policy is set to global.

With a test user created from scratch, undo did work as it should, so this means that there's either some conflict or some installed app messed up the shortcuts. I run xev again in test user and the output is indeed different. There are now no FocusOut, FocusIn and KeymapNotify events instead of KeyPress. I have no idea what these events mean, and how and for which reason are they showing up... It also seems that this part everyone ignores...

test-shortcuts

#6

What you ask "everyone else" is to find the needle in a stack of hay without a magnet. Even if you would have shared that as a text, is impossible to trace it on another machine.

See my example 
KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x5c00001,
    root 0x1d7, subw 0x0, time 20809518, (218,685), root:(3100,714),
    state 0x0, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x5c00001,
    root 0x1d7, subw 0x0, time 20809910, (218,685), root:(3100,714),
    state 0x4, keycode 52 (keysym 0x7a, z), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1a) "â–’"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1a) "â–’"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x5c00001,
    root 0x1d7, subw 0x0, time 20810054, (218,685), root:(3100,714),
    state 0x4, keycode 52 (keysym 0x7a, z), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1a) "â–’"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x5c00001,
    root 0x1d7, subw 0x0, time 20810118, (218,685), root:(3100,714),
    state 0x4, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

As you can see is totally different than yours, even from the test user you created, but since is working on that user, that means there is something in your user that overwrites the mapping to Ctrl+Z
The possibilities are quite numerous, and is impossible to start enumerating each and one of them, so you can check. You have to know what you did prior to this behavior started.
I could recommend to delete ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc but is not from there, because is impossible to have the same shortcut assigned twice for different tasks in KDE Plasma Shortcut settings.
Maybe you used dconf-editor just to test things and you changed something there.
Probably you used loadkeys to customize keyboard mapping, or by using xmodmap, or you tested xkb for custom keyboard and something is off ...

See what config/file is different from your user to the TEST user and maybe there is something in .xbindkeysrc (if you used that), or in .xinitrc ... because is definitely not a system wide issue, but restricted to your main user.

#7

I see what you mean, but the issue is that I haven't used any specific program for key bindings, links, shortcuts etc.. I only used system settings provided in KDE... That's the reason why I don't know where to start from, and I really don't remember at which point did this start to occur, since I installed several apps at that stage of setting up the machine, and updated all the packages several times.

~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc doesn't seem to have either undo or Ctrl+Z specified, .xbindkeysrc does not exist and .xinitrc seems quite generic:

~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc 
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[plasmashell]
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.xinitrc 
#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

DEFAULT_SESSION=startkde

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
    xrdb -merge "$userresources"
fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
    for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
        [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
    done
    unset f
fi

get_session(){
	local dbus_args=(--sh-syntax --exit-with-session)
	case $1 in
		awesome) dbus_args+=(awesome) ;;
		bspwm) dbus_args+=(bspwm-session) ;;
		budgie) dbus_args+=(budgie-desktop) ;;
		cinnamon) dbus_args+=(cinnamon-session) ;;
		deepin) dbus_args+=(startdde) ;;
		enlightenment) dbus_args+=(enlightenment_start) ;;
		fluxbox) dbus_args+=(startfluxbox) ;;
		gnome) dbus_args+=(gnome-session) ;;
		i3|i3wm) dbus_args+=(i3 --shmlog-size 0) ;;
		jwm) dbus_args+=(jwm) ;;
		kde) dbus_args+=(startkde) ;;
		lxde) dbus_args+=(startlxde) ;;
		lxqt) dbus_args+=(lxqt-session) ;;
		mate) dbus_args+=(mate-session) ;;
		xfce) dbus_args+=(xfce4-session) ;;
		openbox) dbus_args+=(openbox-session) ;;
		*) dbus_args+=($DEFAULT_SESSION) ;;
	esac

	echo "dbus-launch ${dbus_args[*]}"
}

exec $(get_session)
#8

Do you have shortcuts set to Ctrl+< or Ctrl+> for something? Maybe related
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402028

Also it seems that KDE Plasma doesn't notify if there is a conflict with Ctrl+Z, so it can be attributed twice without notice, unusable in both instances tho ...

Try to restore to Defaults and see if that helps, or use the TEST user .config and .local folders and just get the necessary files and folders from your original user for your other applications.

#9

I don't have those two shortcuts set, so that doesn't seem to be the issue.

What could be the damage if I bluntly copy/overwrite all of the /home/test/.config/* to /home/<user>/.config/*, and the same with .local/share?

#10

If you do it while logged in, there will be errors, if you do it from tty, might work. Never had to do this myself. I always have backups.

#11

I tried to copy all the files from .config and .local from test user to my user, but undo still doesn't work. Also I reverted all the shortcuts to defaults, still, no change. Additionally, I've set the same "custom" shortcuts that I applied weeks ago now to the test user, and those didn't break CTRL+Z as undo.

Now I'm completely lost... I haven't touched any of the "fancy" ways of changing the shortcuts, just used system settings menu. It somehow seems that some installed programs messed something up, but I really have zero idea...

Does anyone have? Maybe there are some other shortcut files in folders other then .config and .local?

#12

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