Word moving with left-arrow-ctrl broken in Wayland
Ubuntu 17.10 and 18.04, Wayland session.
In the terminal, the keycombination ctrl - left-arrow and ctrl - right-arrow moves the cursor one word to the left and to the right. In Xorg this works no matter which key you press first (ctrl or arrow). In Wayland, you have to press the ctrl key first, otherwise, the cursor will not move.
How to reproduce:
Type some words in gnome terminal press left-arrow key, wait for the cursor to move then and press ctrl.
What happens
The cursor first moves one character per "tick", and stops immediately when you press ctrl.
What should happen
The cursor first moves one character per "tick", and starts moving one word per "tick" when you press ctrl.
This is the behaviour in other DE's, on Mac and on Windows. Many applications also have this behaviour on Wayland.
Which applications are affected
Buggy behaviour:
- Gnome Terminal
- Gedit
- LibreOffice writer
- Nautilus
- Ubuntu Software
Correct behavior:
- xterminal
- Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Atom