On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 07:55:06AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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):
[...] Good idea. Cheers -- t
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