Open evalexpr opened 4 years ago
I've partially solved this by using --clearmodifiers
but it's still a potentially unwanted interaction.
@evalexpr I tested a few other options. ydotool also suffers from a related issue. For a swapcaps layout, you have to send a Caps Lock keycode, although ydotool doesn't activate Caps Lock itself. (This is not perfect for me. I have swapcaps on one keyboard and not another, so I don't want to hard-code the wrong key in.) I also had a look at uinputchars, but it looks like it also doesn't deal with keymaps.
In xdotool, --clearmodifiers
looks like it does work, but I needed to insert a slight pause. e.g. for my script to type the current date.
sh -c 'xdotool type --clearmodifiers -- $(date +%y%m%d | tr "\\n" " ") ; sleep 0.1; xdotool key --clearmodifiers Shift_L'
so not ideal either.
I also have shift:breaks_caps
for my xkb, which might be necessary.
I have ctrl:swapcaps in my xkb options, and am trying to simulate pressing
Ctrl+[
.I've tried this with
xdotool key Caps_Lock+bracketleft
as well asxdotool key Control_L+bracketleft
. It works with both, however with either mapping, the Caps Lock mode of the device is activated, even when I'm using theCaps_Lock+bracketleft
mapping (when I actually press this key combination on the keyboard, caps lock is not activated)Is this a known limitation of the tool or a bug?