Bug#813092: xautomation: xte ignores keyboard layout

[Roland Koebler <r.koebler@yahoo.de>]

Package: xautomation
Version: 1.09-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

xte seems to ignore the keyboard-layout, and always use the US-layout.

Example with a German keyboard:

$ xte "str echo 'ö/'"
$ echo |;&|


Strangely, it seems to be possible to re-set the keyboard-map with setxkbmap,
to solve the problem. Example:

$ xinput --list
...
⎣ Virtual core keyboard            id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
...

$ setxkbmap -device 3 -print
xkb_keymap {
    xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwertz)"	};
    xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
    xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
    xkb_symbols   { include "pc+de(nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)"	};
    xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
};

$ xte "str echo 'ö/'"
$ echo |;&|

$ setxkbmap -device 3 "de(nodeadkeys)"
$ setxkbmap -device 3 -print
xkb_keymap {
    xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"	};
    xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
    xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
    xkb_symbols   { include "pc+de(nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)"	};
    xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
};
$ xte "str echo 'ö/'"
$ echo 'ö/'



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable'), (160, 'testing'), (150, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages xautomation depends on:
ii  libc6       2.19-18+deb8u2
ii  libpng12-0  1.2.50-2+deb8u2
ii  libx11-6    2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxi6      2:1.7.4-1+b2
ii  libxtst6    2:1.2.2-1+b1

xautomation recommends no packages.

xautomation suggests no packages.

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