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I have installed Kubuntu 18.04 with KDE on my home machine.

I usually use Ctrl + Shift for switching keyboard language layout, but that setting breaks Ctrl + Shift + ← and Ctrl + Shift + → selecting by word behavior (or any other hotkey containing Ctrl + Shift) — instead of selecting text by word it switches keyboard layout. I have switched to using Alt + Shift for language layout switching, but that interferes with JetBrains' IDE hotkey Alt + Shift + L (or any other hotkey containing Alt + Shift) — instead of intended action in IDE it simply switches keyboard layout.

On another machine with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS I successfully use both layout switching hotkeys without any issues, so there must be something I'm missing in keyboard configuration. The question is: why regular keyboard layout switching hotkey interferes with global system hotkeys effectively overriding and breaking them? How to fix that behavior?

abu_bua
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Eduard Sukharev
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    Possible duplicate of [OS keyboard shortcuts conflict with apps keyboard shortcuts](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1009352/os-keyboard-shortcuts-conflict-with-apps-keyboard-shortcuts). Also see [this answer](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029588/18-04-ctrlshift-to-change-language/1029605?s=1|0.0000#1029605). I hope my PPA will help. – N0rbert Jul 25 '18 at 12:05
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    It really is and your answer should probably be the accepted one. Installing your PPA package helped. – Eduard Sukharev Jul 26 '18 at 06:53

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