Changing keyboard layout prevents application hotkeys from working

[hexagonrecursion]

Qubes OS version
Qubes release 4.0 (R4.0)

Affected component(s) or functionality
Qubes Manager
Official Fedora 30 template

Brief summary
When using any non-default keyboard layout hot key combinations in many (all?) applications are not recognized.

To Reproduce

1. Start a qube
2. In Qubes Manager set keyboard layout for the qube to af (Afghani)
3. Open firefox in the qube
4. Try typing hotkeys (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V etc)

Expected behavior
Hotkeys work as they normally do.

Actual behavior
Hotkeys do nothing.

Additional context
In all other operating systems hotkeys work regardless of the keyboard layout.

Solutions you've tried
none so far

Relevant documentation you've consulted
none

Related, non-duplicate issues
none

[marmarek]

Does it match dom0 keyboard layout? If not, that may be an issue and ultimately another case of #1396

[hexagonrecursion]

First of all: it is a per-qube setting. What is the point of it being per-qube if it has to match dom0?
Secondly: just to check I changed the dom0 keyboard layout to af (localectl set-x11-keymap "af" and reboot) and now copy-paste between domains doesn't work and hotkeys only work in domU if I manually set domU keyboard layout to us.

[hexagonrecursion]

Because this is present even when DomU layout happens to match Dom0 I believe this is a separate bug.

[jevank]

New variant layout propagation (#1396, #4294) makes current issue actual to 4.1 at common. Without latin layout hotkey mostly (completely?) doesn`t work. What about forcing double layout (actual + latin) to vm instead of single one?

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