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donniebreve / touchcursor-linux

TouchCursor style keyboard remapping for Linux.
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How to output the enter key #41

Closed boesi closed 2 years ago

boesi commented 2 years ago

Hi

Thanks for this great software. I have only one small problem: I can't output the enter key.

My key bindings: KEY_H=KEY_LEFT KEY_J=KEY_DOWN KEY_K=KEY_UP KEY_L=KEY_RIGHT KEY_N=KEY_HOME KEY_M=KEY_END KEY_D=KEY_DELETE KEY_E=KEY_ENTER KEY_B=KEY_SPACE

All work except for the enter key.

Adda0 commented 2 years ago

Hello, glad you find TouchCursor useful. I agree that this is a strange behaviour. I use KEY_ENTER all the time and never had the issue. Therefore, I presume the issue is on your end, as in makes itself evident on your system. I cannot replicate your issue on my end, which makes things a lot harder to debug.

Just to be sure, you did restart the service with

systemctl --user restart touchcursor.service

after you added the KEY_E=KEY_ENTER line (and saved the file), right?

Could you try binding the enter key to other key that appears to be working (such as KEY_B, for example) and bind something else to KEY_E to make sure the issue is not linked to KEY_E specifically? Do not forget to restart the service again with the above command.

Which kernel version do you use? Run uname -r to find out. Could you run the following command to ensure no errors are logged when restarting the service, too?

systemctl --user restart touchcursor.service; sleep 5; journalctl -e

Look for a line containing Started Touch Cursor Service and then see below this line for additional logs from touchcursor service. What do you get?

@donniebreve It occurs to me now that we do not have any verbose logging mode to output every operation TouchCursor does to a log file for debugging purposes such as this. Well, except for a few commented out debug prints such as this or this one. I will make an issue for that.

boesi commented 2 years ago

Hello, glad you find TouchCursor useful. I agree that this is a strange behaviour. I use KEY_ENTER all the time and never had the issue. Therefore, I presume the issue is on your end, as in makes itself evident on your system.

Yes, you are right, and it was all my fault. First I had the binding KEY_E=KEY_RETURN which obviously wasn't working. After looking in input-event-codes.h (great that the link is in the config file), I changed the binding to KEY_E=KEY_ENTER. But instead of restarting the service, I just looked at its status.

So thanks for your nice hint, I missed an important step.