Open rjekker opened 7 years ago
I have the same issue; a script that used to work with Ubuntu-14.04's version of xdotool now fails to accomplish the needed ctrl
modifiers. It appears as if xdotool
just completely ignores these modifiers now.
Does anybody have an idea what changed between these versions?
...never mind: for me, installing the newest HEAD version of xdotool
solved the problem.
I had this issue, too, and just installed newest HEAD version of xdotool (to /usr/local/bin/xdotool), but now when i run it from there, I see "Your windowmanager claims not to support _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW, so the attempt to activate the window was aborted."
Any idea how to resolve this?
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I tried the default ubuntu version (an older version from 2015 I believe) installed by apt-get, and later I built the latest version from scratch (3.20160805.1). In both cases I have the same problem. I use i3wm by the way - don't know if that matters.
Whenever sending a ctrl or alt key combination like this
xdotool key --window 0x3c00001 Ctrl+x
the receiving application seems to completely ignore the fact that a ctrl was pressed. The same is true for combinations with alt. Strangely key combinations with Super seem to work.
The following is the output from
xev
when I send Ctrl+x:Compare this with the output when I type it myself: