Eclipse Photon - wrong keyboard layout only for shortcut

Question

Moving from Eclipse Oxygen (4.7), to Eclipse Photon (4.8) introduced a strange issue with wrong keyboard layout, only for the shortcut.

I mean, for instance:

• in any editor, typing A key is producing a 'A' letter, which is OK
• but using CTRL+A, to select all, is NOT working, because it is regarded as a CTRL+Q (i.e. keyboard layout regarded as Qwerty instead of Azerty here)

After analysis, I found various related bug report on Eclipse' Bugzilla:

• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=531378
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=533395
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=61190

But, I still don't have any working workaround to use Eclipse Photon with the good keyboard layout for shortcuts (despite having removed ALL keyboard layouts, but the one wanted, on my OS => which is GNU/Linux Fedora 26, with Gnome Shell).

Acting, the bug fix is NOT embedded in the 2018-09 release, I moved back to my previous Eclipse Oxygen release, where the bug does not exist.

Do you know any way to have this bug fixed with Eclipse Photon release?

Answer 1

This is a known issue of Eclipse Photon (4.8) (see this comment for a workaround). It has been fixed in the follow-up release Eclipse 2018-09 (4.9), on September 19, 2018.

Upgrade Eclipse to get the fix (e.g. by enabling major upgrades).