xdotool key/type looses modifier keys

[Rick Berger]

Hi,

This should be straight forward, but I'm lost. I have a bash script that sends a  ctrl+v to a window. It works 99% time, but every so often I'd just get the letter v rather than the contents of the copy buffer, which I can get after doing the ctrl+v myself.

So I thought I'd try it with something simple.

cb='HELLO WORLD'

xdotool type --clearmodifiers "${cb}"

And during a number of invocations I get the follow ouput in an editor. The new lines on the first four are mine.

hello world

heLlo world

hello wOrld

hello wOrLd

hello worldHEllo worldhELlo worldHELlo wOrld

 

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and xdotool version 2.20110530.1.

Thoughts?