Autotype with a username containing the @ symbol sends "

[Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs]

I have a EN-GB keyboard, and the @ character is on the same location as the " would be on a EN-US keyboard. I wonder whether this is causing a conflict.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: keepassx 0.4.3-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 16 09:21:32 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
SourcePackage: keepassx
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (32 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Giles Bathgate (gilesbathgate)]

I don't think this is a KeePassX bug see:
http://www.keepassx.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2425

"setxkbmap gb" works for me

[StewVed (stewved)]

My keyboard is en-gb and it is set as such in keybpard layout and languages on ubuntu 13.04 (64-bit). when I press (shift+3) on my eb-gb keyboard in here and any other text editor etc, I get £.

On an en-us that symble would be different. as the OP said, the @ on en-gb is shift+' (2 to the right of L) though on an en-us keyboard @ is shift+2 I suppose. my keyboard layout is working perfectly fine in EVERYTHING other than autotype.

I imagine perhaps that where KeepassX gets the system locale is obselete/unused in current distros perhaps?

@ Giles, 'setxkbmap gb' is a nice workaround - thanks for the tip, though since everything else appears to know my keyboard is en-gb, I assume there is nother local setting that everything else uses other than xkbmap? (I am no expert...lol)

adding:
bash -c "setxkbmap gb"
 or
sh -c ""setxkbmap gb" &
to your autostart entries would solve the problem as anubeon posted in the link you put m8 :)

[Giles Bathgate (gilesbathgate)]

This seemed to be fixed in 'precise' (12.04) but is now not working again in 'raring' (13.04).

I had forgotten about the "setxkbmap gb" workaround, but as Stewart says, you shouldn't have to need this workaround. Can someone smart fix this.

Regards,
Giles

[Mark Jonas (mark-jonas)]

"#1244402 Autotype changes the @ character after upgrade to saucy" is somehow a duplicate of this issue.

German users with get a ⅛ character instead of an @.

According to https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/247104 there is an additional workaround to this problem: Remove all additional keyboard languages.

A solution instead of a workaround would be great. TIA.