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Moving from Eclipse Oxygen (4.7), to Eclipse Photon (4.8) introduced a strange issue with wrong keyboard layout, only for the shortcut.

I mean, for instance:

  • in any editor, typing A key is producing a 'A' letter, which is OK
  • but using CTRL+A, to select all, is NOT working, because it is regarded as a CTRL+Q (i.e. keyboard layout regarded as Qwerty instead of Azerty here)

After analysis, I found various related bug report on Eclipse' Bugzilla:

But, I still don't have any working workaround to use Eclipse Photon with the good keyboard layout for shortcuts (despite having removed ALL keyboard layouts, but the one wanted, on my OS => which is GNU/Linux Fedora 26, with Gnome Shell).

Acting, the bug fix is NOT embedded in the 2018-09 release, I moved back to my previous Eclipse Oxygen release, where the bug does not exist.

Do you know any way to have this bug fixed with Eclipse Photon release?

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Have you tried the following workaround? bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=533395#c6 Does it work in 2018-12 M1?howlger
Yes, like said: "despite having removed ALL keyboard layouts, but the one wanted"Bsquare ℬℬ
Please check if the bug is fixed in 2018-12 M1. If not, comment on the bug.howlger
@howlger I just tested it; the bug does not exist anymore in this release. Anyway, it doesn't answer to my initial question ...Bsquare ℬℬ
You can either fix the bug yourself in Photon (which is no longer maintained), upgrade to the milestone pre-release 2018-12 M1 (which is what I would recommend), or wait until the final release 2018-12 on December 19.howlger

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This is a known issue of Eclipse Photon (4.8) (see this comment for a workaround). It has been fixed in the follow-up release Eclipse 2018-09 (4.9), on September 19, 2018.

Upgrade Eclipse to get the fix (e.g. by enabling major upgrades).