[BUG] Mapping Alt+^ (dead_circumflex) doesn't work (need raw key mapping)

[bew]

Version

Output of rofi -v: Version: 1.7.0

Configuration

Output of rofi -help: https://gist.github.com/bew/453457c12d439dc6910ad93522778c90

Launch Command

rofi -show drun -kb-move-front 'Alt+dead_circumflex' -kb-custom-16 ''

NOTE: -kb-custom-16 '' is necessary to be able to bind Alt+^ to another action.

Steps to reproduce

• Use a french keyboard layout, where ^ is a dead key and can be used like ^e for ê.
• type a few things in the search like aa bb
• Try to press Alt+^ (or Alt+dead_circumflex)
• then press e

What behavior you see

• When pressing Alt+^ then e, it's as if I pressed ^ then e, making a ê at the end.
• and the search looks like aa bbê

What behavior you expect to see

• the cursor is moved to the front, e is inserted at the beginning
• and the search should look like eaa bb

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@bew: hello! :wave:

This issue is being automatically closed because it does not follow the issue template.

[bew]

Really?!

[DaveDavenport]

not sure why bot triggered. (aah you removed the header, I will see if I can make it less paranoid).

Apologies.

[bew]

Yeah I removed unnecessary things and fixed a few typos in last 2 headers (behavior instead of behaviour) :eyes:

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[DaveDavenport]

I am no expert on keyboard, but if you have us keyboard international layout typing ^e should results in ê. I do see that the above keybinding on us layout works for me. I need to test this, it used to work in the past.

[DaveDavenport]

Yeah I removed unnecessary things and fixed a few typos in last 2 headers (behavior instead of behaviour) eyes

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Thanks, we will look into it.

[DaveDavenport]

Yeah I removed unnecessary things and fixed a few typos in last 2 headers (behavior instead of behaviour) eyes

I don't agree, as that depends if we use American English or British English. But that is why the bot complaints because it looks for headers.

[bew]

(requested on IRC) Result of setxkbmap -query:

rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     fr

[DaveDavenport]

Thanks, lets try to quickly summarize, because we ran into two issues:

In that keyboard layout '^' is a possible composite (right term) key and typing ^e results in ê, to type a ^ you need to type ^space. To the best of my knowledge we cannot map the 'raw' keycode yet (that would allow this mapping).

The second thing I noticed, that on different systems the ^ maps to either dead_circumflex (as bound by default in rofi) or asciicircum.

[DaveDavenport]

This patch to libnkutils fixes this behaviour I think, but needs to be validated as I know very little about this topic https://paste.xinu.at/Eb1/ (@sardemff7 )

[sardemff7]

Sorry for the delay

As you can see in this very readable XML source for Docbook man pages you can bind a keycode (Alt+[34] in this case) but that wouldn’t work here as the Compose processing is eating the key altogether (Feel free to include the man page excerpt in rofi’s man page, though maybe add a warning it could be out of sync. I still hope to release libnkutils as standalone at some point that would avoid some of these updating issues)

@DaveDavenport’s patch looks good, and should work in all cases Just to be safe I’ll read it again later before committing, it’s been some time since I wrote this code

Thanks for the report and thanks for the patch!

[sardemff7]

Fix included in bde8175d393d8dbd8998268480a370e6daf9370e

[sardemff7]

Have anyone tested it yet?

[bew]

I've just tested with the latest next (currently at 05e84544)

Running with: ./rofi -show window -kb-move-front 'Alt+dead_circumflex' -kb-custom-16 '' -kb-move-end 'Alt+dollar,Alt+End' -kb-custom-14 ''

And the Alt bindings works perfectly :heart:

[DaveDavenport]

Thanks.!

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