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Linux wayland with custom keyboard layout (colemak) the characters are not taking the layout into account #302

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dkuku opened this issue Jul 18, 2024 · 2 comments
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Linux wayland with custom keyboard layout (colemak) the characters are not taking the layout into account #302

dkuku opened this issue Jul 18, 2024 · 2 comments
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dkuku commented Jul 18, 2024

Describe the bug
This text:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
is pasted as:
abcsftdhuneimky;qprglvwxjz1234567890ABCSFTDHUNEIMKY:QPRGLVWXJZ
Changing to qwerty fixes the issue.
To Reproduce
Change the keyboard layout to colemak
My code is basic - is was the same on some older version of the crate, I upgraded to lastest nad nothing changed. Printing it is ok.

                    let mut enigo = Enigo::new(&Settings::default()).unwrap();
                    println!("{}", text);
                    let _ = enigo.text(&text);

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  • OS: Linux Gnome Wayland with custom keyboard layout
  • Rust rustc 1.79.0 (129f3b996 2024-06-10)
  • Library Version 0.2.1 (tested also on 0.0.14)

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dkuku commented Jul 19, 2024

I found in the docs that I should use Keyboard::key

@dkuku dkuku closed this as completed Jul 19, 2024
@pentamassiv pentamassiv reopened this Aug 1, 2024
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I reopened the issue, because using the text method was correct. Keyboard::key is only intended to be used when your intention is to press or release a key (e.g press SHIFT). If I understood correctly, you want to type text and don't really care which (or if any) keys are pressed or released.

The reason why the wrong characters are entered is probably because right now a hard-coded keymap is used and that probably conflicts with Colemak. I am surprised though that the text_input protocol was not used. Which DE do you use?

The situation with text input on Wayland is still quite messy. I need to improve enigo a lot to get it working properly :S

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