Chromium shortcuts do not always honor xmodmap changes during runtime

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Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote on 22 Feb 2021 21:24
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Hi,

When I start Chromium and then set a different keyboard layout with
xmodmap, the tab-level shortcuts like CTRL-w do not honor the different
layout.

In my layout w is mapped on QWERTZ-n, so when I open Chromium and then
switch the keyboard layout, hitting CTRL-w in Chromium causes a new
window to open (as would be expected from CTRL-n).

I have to pkill chromium to get back to sane behavior (and that does not
always work).

Best wishes,
Arne
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