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Cannot type "<" in textentry when using keyboard layout "us"

Open domstoppable opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

Is there an existing issue for this?

  • [X] I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior

When binding a key to type a string of text which includes "<", it will instead type ">" if your keyboard layout is set to "us"

Expected Behavior

Text Entry should type exactly the text inputted regardless of keyboard layout

Steps To Reproduce

  1. Set your keyboard layout to "us". E.g., setxkbmap us
  2. Use the "Advanced" mode to bind a button to type "I <3 antimicrox"
  3. Try it out and observe "I >3 Antimicrox"
  4. Change your keyboard layout to "us intl". E.g., setxkbmap us intl
  5. Try the binding again and observe "I <3 antimicrox"

Environment

- OS: Debian 11 
- AntiMicroX version: 3.2.2

Anything else?

Apparently this is not an uncommon challenge. See this comment for a good explanation.

domstoppable avatar Apr 04 '22 12:04 domstoppable