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[Simos Xenitellis <1226962@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am using 13.10 (latest updates) and I have configured the layouts US
English, Greek, Russian.

I started "gedit" (core GTK+ app) and I switch keyboard layout to Greek.

1. I typed some text in Greek. Then, pressed Ctrl+A (Select All) but nothing happened. Instead, the whole text should have been selected. 
In the Greek keyboard layout, the Greek A is on the same physical key as the Latin A. 

2. I pressed Alt+F (Open the File menu). Nothing happened.


GTK+ should have handled correctly both of these cases as it has code to handle the multiple-layout issue.
I tried to unset 'GTK_MODULES' (has a value of 'unity-gtk-module'), but I did not get back the old behavior. 
I could not find a workaround for these critical issues.

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Title:
  Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout

Status in Unity:
  Triaged
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  New keyboard layout changer in Ubuntu 13.10 introduce  old-new bug. Any system or application hotkey witch use char (for example: ctrl+alt+t for terminal or ctrl+t for new tab in browser) become unfunctional when selected non-latin keyboard layout. 
  Hotkeys with F1-12, numbers and other non-character buttons works perfectly. 

  Window manager hotkeys not affected by this bug. All hotkeys in system
  parameters->keyboard->hotkeys->windows works perfect with any keyboard
  layout.

  Workaround for some system hotkeys and two layouts (english and non-
  latin): rebind all hotkeys in your local layout. For example instead
  of ctrl+alt+t use ctrl+alt+τ (greek tau). That hotkey still work with
  english layout.  If you use english and two different non-latin
  layouts this workaround helps only with one of them.

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