control keys don't work

[spir]

Hello,

in-game control-keys, such as control-space to end a turn, do not work by me. Do you know about similar issues?

Info:
* The issue remains with several releases of wesnoth of both the stable and dev branches.
* I tried with several keyboards in case there would be a materiel issue (but control keys work fine with all other programs, anyway).
* I have a french keyboard and french system settings. I tried with wesnoth itself in english and french (in case control-keys would change according to language).
* It used to work years ago (I haven't played wesnoth for a long while in-between).
* Ubuntu 9.04, presently wesnoth 1.6.4 and 1.7.5.

[Soliton]

Check under Preferences -> Hotkeys that the hotkeys are really assigned to what you think they are and maybe try to re-set them.

[spir]

Thank you for your hint.

Now, I now the title was precise enough: it's not hotkeys that don't work, but precisely control keys. For instance, when changing next turn to alt+space, all works fine.
Now, I really have no clue about the source of the issue. Because (as sais above), I have this problem only with BfW, and even after changing keyboard. There must be a rather wesnoth-specific issue (I don't mean necessarily a bug, rather I'm thinking at a set of factors that together cause this (non-)behaviour).

[Soliton]

ctrl+space is used by some window managers. Are you really able to assign ctrl+space as a hotkey and then it simply doesn't work?

[Max]

some hotkeys never worked for me (1.4 up to latest dev version), e.g. the one for mute (ctrl-alt m). when i try to change those to the same value they have been set before it either get's cleared or some other char appears (ctrl-alt `).

everything works though if i run wesnoth in linux in a VM (on the same machine).

[spir]

ctrl+space is used by some window managers. Are you really able to assign ctrl+space as a hotkey and then it simply doesn't work?

Well, I never assigned it to "end turn", AFAIK it's the default one. And no control key at all works for me, eg control+v (ennemy move) or control+r (recruit) -- but alt+r (recall) works.

Anyway, it's not a serious issue. I asked if ever the problem was known on your side, or someone had a clue.

[Soliton]

ctrl+space is used by some window managers. Are you really able to assign ctrl+space as a hotkey and then it simply doesn't work?

Well, I never assigned it to "end turn", AFAIK it's the default one.

I know... I asked what happens when you try to assign a hotkey with ctrl in it. If that doesn't work the key doesn't even reach wesnoth.

[spir]

I know... I asked what happens when you try to assign a hotkey with ctrl in it. If that doesn't work the key doesn't even reach wesnoth.

... and you were right to ask, indeed!

Well, when trying this, the "control" part does not appear. Eg "control+a" shows as "a".
Hum... I'll test if it works, then, as shown... Yo! I assigned (tried to) control+h to help, it shows as "h" only, then the 'h' key actually triggers help.
Hope this helps.