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Using Super key requires more than one press #16

Closed mat-m closed 2 years ago

mat-m commented 6 years ago

Hello I just installed parcellite 1.2.1 from the amd64 deb package on a fresh Mint 18.3.

I have one issue because I use the super key (The Logo key) to have faster hotkeys: I use Super-V to get the history and select the entry I want. It is very near the Ctrl-V so it is easy to remember and natural to type.

But the history raises currently at the third press. When the focus is in a text field (like here), and the mouse cursor is hovering the field, we see it change from I-beam to arrow on first press, back to I-beam on second press, and history appaers on third press.

Can you reproduce ?

rickyrockrat commented 6 years ago

My entry looks like

V And it actuates the first time every time. Check to see that something in your window manager doesn't also have it mapped. I am running from Git, but there are very minor changes from 1.2.1 - and they are mostly cosmetic.
mat-m commented 6 years ago

To define special keys, you have to type their code. If you just press the combination, you only get the character.

If I want to use Alt-v, I type <Meta>v in the hotkey field. This one works on the first press. If I want to use Logo-v, I type <Super>v in the hotkey field. On first press, I get a v typed, and on second press the menu triggers. This does not occur with Logo-E under cinnamon which launches the files explorer (Nemo). But pressing an unassigned combination leads to typed-in characters : c inserts a 'c' when the focus is in an input field.

I don't know the mechanism to trap hotkeys, but it looks like the first press is not trapped or trapped by someone else, then the second reaches Parcellite. Is there a way to debug this easily, as I am not a developer ?

rickyrockrat commented 6 years ago

I am unable to duplicate here. My 'history key combination' is set to '<Super>v', and it works the first time every time. Go through all your key mappings for your WM, also see if you can find out anything via gsettings and org.cinnamon.muffin.keybindings

Another possibility is Ubuntu and Linux Mint stores xmodmap settings in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc.

Also, if you exit parcellite, then launch it from the command line, look for key binding errors. If you get one, someone else has it bound.

a4z commented 4 years ago

just searching for the same problem lead me here I think it could be due to the desktop environment? with Mate, super key brings the (start) menu, so maybe therefore some people have this with the super key ....

mat-m commented 4 years ago

Issue comes from Cinnamon. I can't reproduce with xfce

manuman94 commented 2 years ago

Yes! I'm having the same issue with Cinnamon.

rickyrockrat commented 2 years ago

Have you launched parcellite from the command line and looked for key binding errors? I'm pretty sure the issue is that Cinnamon has that key bound already, but the command line errors should pin point it. You can't have two applications binding the same key.

manuman94 commented 2 years ago

Hi, I tried today. This is the result:

$ parcellite Flag 0x0001, status 256, EXIT 1 STAT 1 Super+VFlag 0x0001, status 256, EXIT 1 STAT 1

Is this output normal?

Further, I tried looking for keyboard shorcuts using Super + V and I didn't find any.

Thank you, greetings!

Edit: No errors at the terminal when using the shortcut

rickyrockrat commented 2 years ago

Thank you for running that. That's normal output and means you don't have Xdotool installed, or it's not in your path. You should have gotten a "Binding 'xxxx' failed!" if your key was in use, which is not the case with you.

Here is the bug I bet you guys are hitting: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/549 Gnome 3 strikes again: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662580 supposedly fixed in 3.8. But it seems there are still issues with Cinnamon? At any case, this does not look like a parcellite issue and I'm going to close it for now.

manuman94 commented 2 years ago

Hi @rickyrockrat !

Yes, you're totally right.

By following https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/549#issuecomment-761878019 instructions I get the expected behaviour.

The only thing to care is that stops showing the start menu, but I never used key to open it.

Thank you so much!

syahbes commented 1 year ago

thanks ! that works for getting the clipboard menu when pressing logo key + v but... canceled the default behevior - open menu when hit only logo key