Sending a pipe symbol with xdotool

[Joe Consultant]

I'm working on another application issue (AutoKey) where there is a problem sending a pipe symbol.

I tried using xdotool to figure out what the issue is.

    shelelia@halo:~/pq$ xdotool key '|'

    Error: Invalid key sequence '|'

    Failure converting key sequence '|' to keycodes

    Error: Invalid key sequence '|'

    Failure converting key sequence '|' to keycodes

    xdo_keysequence reported an error for string '|'

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

[Jordan Sissel]

`key` takes names that are symbol names for keyboard keys. These are sometimes hard to find, but `keysymdef.h` defines them, if that helps.

It looks like in your case, you want to do `xdotool key bar`, because `bar` is defined in keysymdef.h as `XK_bar` with a comment saying 'vertical bar'.

If you want to type '|' instead, can you try `xdotool type` ? `type` is more for "send the keys that will produce this text" like `xdotool type "hello world | goodbye"`

-Jordan

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[Joe Consultant]

Thanks for taking the time to answer. And thanks for the great tool.

We need it occasionally when we run into one of the many things that AutoKey won't do, but your cool tool will.