Intellij confuses Y and Z

Question

I'm used to deleting a line with CTRL+Y and reverting a change with CTRL+Z. But on my machine, Intellij removes the line, when I press CTRL+Z instead.

I beleive it has something to do with a german layout/keyboard. Because they have y and z switched.

I set the layout to US, so it should not be a problem. When I press Y it really prints Y, but Intellij still interprets CTRL+Y as reverting last change.

Answer 1

It depends on the order of the keyboard layouts in your system.

Idea uses the top/first layout and does not care about the currently selected keyboard layout.

Solution: Just put the non-english layout to the top in your system settings.

Hint (depending on the question that leads to a QWERTZ keyboard):

• [KDE, de] Systemeinstellungen -> Eingabegeräte -> Tastatur -> Belegungen -> Belegungen einrichten
• [KDE, en] System settings -> Input devices -> Keyboard -> Layout -> Configure Layouts

Answer 2

Check your keymap and make sure the Undo action is set to CTRL Z. Likewise search for Delete line in the keymap and make sure it is set appropriately. Here is a screen shot of the Undo action (I am on a Mac so mine uses command key).