#1532 AutoType Changes Some High ANSI Cases; Stutters

[Michael Gruben]

For instance, if I've created a password like the following:
ÈÍL`UCÂÑìIWǼ-i±1vö»½ÈÜ]1*¹Ka÷Kmnî0ö¢?ÿ>

Then the following is what AutoType generates:
èíL`UCâñìIWç¼-i±1vö»½èü]1*¹Ka÷Kmnî0ö¢?ÿ>

The first password is what KeePass displays, and what copies and pastes manually. The corruption only occurs when using AutoType.

Additionally, after AutoType finishes typing passwords with High ANSI characters, it causes my system to be unresponsive for a few seconds. This does not occur when AutoType types characters not containing High ANSI characters. This also does not occur when copying and pasting the High ANSI password manually.

Tools > Options > Advanced > Auto-Type - Sending > Ensure same keyboard layouts during auto-type [x]
is checked yes.

Running:
keepass 2.33-1
xdotool 3.20150503.1-1
xorg-server 1.18.3-1
from within an openbox environment (openbox 3.6.1-3).

$uname -a
Linux Laptop 4.5.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 11 22:21:28 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Rig:
Product Name: HP Pavilion DV7-4053CL
Product Number: WQ867UA#ABA

[Paul]

That looks like an issue with a shift modifier.
I can't reproduce it on my Windows box.

What language keyboard are you using?

cheers, Paul

[Michael Gruben]

$ localectl status
System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   VC Keymap: n/a
  X11 Layout: n/a

Ninja edit:

$ cat /etc/vconsole.conf 
#KEYMAP=/usr/local/share/kbd/keymaps/personal.map

$ cat /usr/local/share/kbd/keymaps/personal.map 
#keycode 59 = F69
#keycode 60 = F70
#keycode 61 = F71
#string F69 = "blank\n"
#string F70 = "brdn\n"
#string F71 = "brup\n"

[Dominik Reichl]

Thanks for reporting this issue. It's caused by a bug in XDoTool:
https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/issues/41

I've now added the workaround that's mentioned in the XDoTool bug report.

Here's the latest development snapshot for testing:
http://keepass.info/filepool/KeePass_160618b.zip

Best regards,
Dominik

[Michael Gruben]

That's upsetting haha, I'll see if I can make any progress on the XDoTool front (I see that bug's ~18 months old).

Thanks for getting back with a fix so quickly.

I am on linux though, and unfortunately could not successfully wine KeePass.exe, so I can't confirm whether the workaround fixes the issue.

[Dominik Reichl]

You can run the development snapshot using mono KeePass.exe (i.e. with Mono instead of Wine).

Best regards,
Dominik

[Michael Gruben]

This has fixed the letter case issue. With this development snapshot, the saved password mentioned in this thread is correctly auto-typed.

The stuttering issue remains, but exists also in xdotool itself