On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 11:46:29 +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 10:00:41AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > chris$ echo 'str string "quoted string" string' | xte
> > chris$ string @quoted string@ string
>
> Hm. No experience with xte; a tiny bit with xdotool. I'm not seeing
> this:
>
> tomas@caliban:~$ xdotool type 'foo"bar'
> foo"bartomas@caliban:~$ foo"bar
Same for me.
hobbit:~$ xdotool type 'foo"bar"'; sleep 1
foo"bar"hobbit:~$ foo"bar"
hobbit:~$ xdotool type 'foo@bar@'; sleep 1
foo@bar@hobbit:~$ foo@bar@
The original post looks like a key mapping issue to me, but I don't
have the experience needed to diagnose it more fully. My next step,
if I were the OP, would be to check what xev thinks the " and @
keys are sending. For @, I get (abridged version of the xev output):
KeyPress keycode 50 Shift_L
KeyPress keycode 11 @
KeyRelease keycode 11 @
KeyRelease keycode 50 Shift_L
The OP might also want to look into the TIOCSTI(2const) approach,
rather than the X event approach, depending on the goal. However,
TIOCSTI seems to be on the way out, and may not work at all:
DESCRIPTION
Insert the given byte in the input queue.
Since Linux 6.2, this operation may require the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability
(if the dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti sysctl variable is set to false).
