Binding to “y” key doesn't work

[hansmi]

Irrespective of the modifiers I use, binding to the “y” key doesn't appear to work.

Example configuration:

bind y:ctrl;alt corner bottom-left
bind x:ctrl;alt corner bottom-right

If I press Control-Option-x, the active window moves to the bottom right as expected. If I press Control-Option-y, nothing happens. I ran a local build from Xcode and saw the hotkey being registered, but it still wouldn't work and no log messages were generated upon pressing Control-Option-y.

I'm using Mac OS X 10.8.2 with a Swiss German keyboard layout.

[jigish]

@hansmi can you do me a favor and use http://manytricks.com/keycodes/ to tell me what the key code for your y key is? Also, if you could send me the output of the logs that would be great.

[hansmi]

Thanks for your reply, Jigish. Turns out the key codes for “x” and “y” are swapped in the Swiss German layout (from Events.h: kVK_ANSI_Y = 0x10, kVK_ANSI_Z = 0x7). If I bind to both keys, the actions are swapped too.

Thinking about it now it's obvious why: the German keyboard layouts (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), as well as others, are QWERTZ, not QWERTY. Could you add a “keyboardLayout” value for it? I'll be happy to provide further information or to test patches.

Key Down
Characters: y
Unicode: 121 / 0x79
Keys: Y
Key Code: 6 / 0x6
Modifiers: 256 / 0x100

Key Down
Characters: z
Unicode: 122 / 0x7a
Keys: Z
Key Code: 16 / 0x10