impossible to use when non-latin layout is activated

[kosivantsov]

[kosivantsov]

When Cyrillic (Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian etc) layout is activated, navigation keys don't work. I suspect the same is true for any non-Latin layout. Maybe it would be better to use scancodes instead of actual characters.

[pchr8]

For me it's also an issue. I've tried using the character names ("Cyrillic_shorti") and keysims ("0x6ca") as provided by xev, and while both don't return errors, they don't seem to work.

[sojusnik]

Can confirm that on Ubuntu 20.04 keynav isn't usable with a Cyrillic layout. Tested different combinations with xev on a Cyrillic layout with different keys, but none of them are recognized. The only thing that works is starting keynav (the grid appears), but nothing else.

Also found out that keynav only recognizes umlauts (ö, ä, ü) when using their alternative name in xev. So "ö" won't be recognized, but "odiaeresis" will.

Did anybody find a solution how to use keynav with a non-latin, especially Cyrillic, layout?