How to test squeekboard keycodes?

Hardware Librem 5
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I have an issue with squeekboard in some applications. In obsidian while using the terminal keyboard, if I type a capital T it will select the entire title of the note instead of outputting to the T it should. However the normal english squeekboard does not have this issue. The normal keyboard does something weird with capital C that the terminal keyboard does not.

I tried using showkey but it looks like it only works with hardware keys, not sqeekboard.

Is there anyway to show what sqeekboard is outputing to the system?

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Do you use a custom layout? If not, what exactly language are you using (want to know the exact layout from the list)?

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US, default layout. And terminal keyboard when needed.

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Obsidian is based on Electron, which is based on Chromium, which has buggy keyboard input handling.

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/issues/244

To answer the actual question, the standard WAYLAND_DEBUG variable can be used to debug what Squeekboard puts on the wire (this is not a problem in Squeekboard though, although it can be workaround there).

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Thanks for posting that. I should have remembered that Obsidian is running on top of Chromium.