Problem with Shift

[silintzir]

I have the following issue:

I'm trying to do some fast text selection and I was always using Alt and Shift together with left or right arrow keys to select next or previous words in the text. In a Mac, whenever I release Alt key alone to fine tune my selection on a character level by using only Shift with arrow keys this works.

This is not the case with xkeysnail. Once I release the Alt key, Shift key is automatically considered to be unpressed as well as even if I keep pressing on this key. This causes me to loose whatever text selection I have made so far.

Has anyone else the same issue?

[joeyave]

I have the same issue even without xkeysnail. The workaround I've found is to define such remapping:

define_keymap(None, {
    K("Shift"): K("Shift")
})

But after that I lose my other remappings.

[shicks]

+1, I've also seen this happening with Ctrl+Shift and releasing Ctrl while still holding Shift seems to cause any following keypresses to lose track of the fact that Shift was pressed (unless Shift is explicitly released and re-pressed).

[shicks]

FWIW, the other direction doesn't have this problem: releasing only Shift does not cause the Ctrl modifier to disappear.

[rbika]

Any updates or workarounds on this?

[shicks]

I'm currently using v0.4.0 and haven't noticed the issue recently.

[rbika]

You are right, I updated to 0.4.0 and it fixed the problem. Thanks.

[joshgoebel]

This issue can be closed then?

[joshgoebel]

Ping. @silintzir If this is fixed in 0.4.0 could you close out this issue?

[yokowasis]

I have the same problem. I can't fine tune the selection. without having to "re-press" the shift button.

I am using Linux Mint 21.

[yokowasis]

Can confirm, after updating from source, the problem is gone.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail.git
cd xkeysnail
sudo pip3 install --upgrade .