So yeah, the launcher doesn't produce numbers when I use shift + keypad. However, I'm pretty sure it should : I always type my numbers this way, and all the program I usually use - be it firefox, LibreOffice, dekstop environments, consoles (even tty1, tty2 and so on) - recognize those inputs as numbers.
However, I found out that this problem doesn't seem specific to the password widget : the mail/username widget is also concerned, and every widget in the launcher (for instance, "Add Profile" in the profile editor,...) Generally speaking, the keypad, be it used with the shift key or the num. lock, is useless when playing minecraft, so I guess Mojang people are not really into these kind of details : a game isn't supposed to be playes on a lame laptop without a mouse
For the sake of a more accurate report, I checked it with another layout, "Anglais (USA)" (Anglais means English) according to my Xubuntu (it's an entry that allows me to play minecraft using numbers above the keyboard. I set it through the Parameters Manager GUI in the main menu). My problem doesn't seem to come from the layout either, actually.
Moreover, not all numbers are affected in the same way (determined by testing other widgets) :
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 work fine ;
4 erases the previous character and then writes '4' ;
7 erases all the characters and then writes '7' ;
0 is an equivalent for paste (as in Ctrl-V) +'0'.
Is that a normal behaviour for a qwerty layout ? Because my "Anglais (USA)" layout, which doesn't produce numbers with the launcher, does produce numbers in firefox (for instance).
No, NumLock is not locked (which is why I press shift). But when I lock NumLock, press shift and use the keypad, I do get the same results you do (shifted cursos keys).
So it is definitely not a layout problem : I tried using several german layouts (all QWERTZ), I got the same strange behaviour. I guess it may come from the OS (unless you tried it under Xubuntu) or from the hardware (still, it would be pretty impressive if all programs I use were not to be affected by such a peculiarity, except minecraft launcher). If that's the case, I guess we can't do much about it.
Since no one was able to reproduce the bug, anyway, it doesn't seem like anything worth fixing...
MCL-1483
Sorry about the little translation mistake.
So yeah, the launcher doesn't produce numbers when I use shift + keypad. However, I'm pretty sure it should : I always type my numbers this way, and all the program I usually use - be it firefox, LibreOffice, dekstop environments, consoles (even tty1, tty2 and so on) - recognize those inputs as numbers.
However, I found out that this problem doesn't seem specific to the password widget : the mail/username widget is also concerned, and every widget in the launcher (for instance, "Add Profile" in the profile editor,...) Generally speaking, the keypad, be it used with the shift key or the num. lock, is useless when playing minecraft, so I guess Mojang people are not really into these kind of details : a game isn't supposed to be playes on a lame laptop without a mouse
For the sake of a more accurate report, I checked it with another layout, "Anglais (USA)" (Anglais means English) according to my Xubuntu (it's an entry that allows me to play minecraft using numbers above the keyboard. I set it through the Parameters Manager GUI in the main menu). My problem doesn't seem to come from the layout either, actually.
Moreover, not all numbers are affected in the same way (determined by testing other widgets) :
Is that a normal behaviour for a qwerty layout ? Because my "Anglais (USA)" layout, which doesn't produce numbers with the launcher, does produce numbers in firefox (for instance).
No, NumLock is not locked (which is why I press shift). But when I lock NumLock, press shift and use the keypad, I do get the same results you do (shifted cursos keys).
So it is definitely not a layout problem : I tried using several german layouts (all QWERTZ), I got the same strange behaviour. I guess it may come from the OS (unless you tried it under Xubuntu) or from the hardware (still, it would be pretty impressive if all programs I use were not to be affected by such a peculiarity, except minecraft launcher). If that's the case, I guess we can't do much about it.
Since no one was able to reproduce the bug, anyway, it doesn't seem like anything worth fixing...