IntelliJ/PhpStorm only switches keyboard layout by half

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I'm having a strange problem with IntelliJ IDEA 16.1.2 running in Ubuntu MATE 16.04: when I switch between keyboard layouts, then normal typing works as expected, but any control key combinations use the wrong layout. Confused? So am I.

For years I've been using MATE (Linux Mint MATE, Ubuntu MATE) and switching between layouts (Norwegian Dvorak and US English) via MATE's built-in keyboard layout switcher (using CAPS LOCK to switch globally), and this has been working without a single hitch. I love it.

But now I started using IntelliJ, and I find that when I switch layouts, a o e u becomes a s d f as it should, but CTRL-X / C / V and all the others remain on the Dvorak key positions (that is, on qwerty you'd have to type CTRL+B / I / > in order to hit the CTRL-X / C / V on the Dvorak layout. Ditto for all other CTRL-any key commands such as Find, Print, etc.

This is bonkers! And it's only happening in IntelliJ IDEA and PhpStorm. I've never seen this before, and right now those are the only two apps on my system that are affected.

My keyboards are native QWERTY, and I have used the OS to specify Dvorak as the primary layout, with QWERTY as an option and a hotkey to toggle between them.

I use Dvorak almost exclusively; the only reason to have the other layout is for "guests": coworkers during pair work, and my wife on the systems at home.

Dvorak is working 100%, but the querty is not: the querty works for non-ctrl characters, but ctrl stays mapped to Dvorak

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Oooh, it seems there's a way to use different layouts on different keyboards, how interesting! I'll give this a go. - KlaymenDK
...sadly, that approach didn't work so well. I still have a problem. - KlaymenDK
What type of keyboard do you have? (dvorak or querty) If dvorak, does it have normal scan-codes? - ctrl-alt-delor
I have various keyboards: ThinkPad laptops, wireless Logitech keyboards, wired keyboards. This is not hardware related. It's now two years later, and still an issue, but only affects my "guests" when pair programming. So, usually I will do the typing. - KlaymenDK
sorry you did not answer my clarification question (it is relevant). Your keyboards, are they regular querty, or regular dvorak, or dvorak with hardware remapping, or … - ctrl-alt-delor

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This is for the other way around, but may help.

I have seen a setting, where you can switch to dvorak, but key control keys in querty position. I think it is in the keyboard layout system-settings.