Windows: Impossible to use accents while typing OUTSIDE of Quod Libet

[lazka]

Original issue 1168 created by unix.timestamp@gmx.com on 2013-05-26T10:21:17.000Z:

I ran into this problem and don't know if it's GTK related, it seems very weird: when QuodLibet is running (on Windows 7, I didn't check if it happened on Linux) stroking accents keys in any application produce immediatly a double accent, instead of letting type the letter that should take the accent.

To get "ê" I normally type "^" and then "e", if I do so when QuodLibet is running I get: "^^e"

[lazka]

Comment #1 originally posted by reiter.christoph on 2013-05-26T11:49:23.000Z:

Confirmed on Win7... maybe pyhook (multimedia keys..) related.

[lazka]

Comment #2 originally posted by reiter.christoph on 2013-05-26T12:01:03.000Z:

Yeah, pyhook related.

If you can live without multimedia key support, rename or delete "C:\Programs\Quod Libet\bin\pyHook" to fix it.

[lazka]

Comment #3 originally posted by reiter.christoph on 2013-05-26T12:06:25.000Z:

http://sourceforge.net/p/pyhook/bugs/2/

[lazka]

Comment #4 originally posted by unix.timestamp@gmx.com on 2013-05-30T09:05:51.000Z:

I renamed pyHook, and it works. I don't use multimedia keys anyway, so i'll stick to the workaround, thanks !

[lazka]

Comment #5 originally posted by reiter.christoph on 2014-03-01T11:41:50.000Z:

Issue #1340 has been merged into this issue.

[lazka]

Comment #6 originally posted by reiter.christoph on 2014-03-05T13:02:43.000Z:

Issue #1341 has been merged into this issue.

[tiangolo]

Hmm, sad not being able to use multimedia keys, but the workaround worked!

[obskyr]

I've been running into this problem a lot, and didn't realize it was Quod Libet for several months. Welp, that's a few months of copy-pasting accented characters wasted.

Is there no way to actually fix this? An alternative to pyHook, or a fix to pyHook, perhaps? Anything? Anything at all? 😞

[lazka]

No idea how to fix this... any info on alternatives/fixes welcome.

[tiangolo]

Maybe PyHooked could work? https://github.com/IronManMark20/pyhooked

[lazka]

Interesting, thanks!

[lafrech]

This issue has been opened for one year in pyHook's bugtracker.

From a quick look on Pypi, pyHooked seems much more "alive" than pyHook, so it could be a smart move. Not sure how much work this involves, though.

[lazka]

Fixed in master (94dadf2)

[lazka]

If someone wants to test:

https://bitbucket.org/lazka/quodlibet/downloads/quodlibet-3.7.-1-rev8048-186f272-installer.exe
https://bitbucket.org/lazka/quodlibet/downloads/quodlibet-3.7.-1-rev8048-186f272-portable.exe

I've only tested with AutoHotkey emulating keys as I don't have multimedia keys on my keyboard.

[tiangolo]

Excellent @lazka. I just tested it.
I have a laptop with multimedia keys. Actually it has a combination of the Fn key with F* keys (F8, F9, F10, etc) for play, pause, etc. The accents are working perfect, outside and even inside Quod Libet.
I'm using Windows 7 x64.

As example: áëîò.

Thanks!

[lazka]

Thanks for testing!

[lafrech]

MM keys work and accents work. (Windows 7 x64 as well.)

Danke schön, @lazka.

[fmv1992]

I had the same issue.

Used your binaries above and it worked. Double accents are fixed.

Keep up the good work!