Can't map some keys

Hi, thanks for this library, I’m trying to make use of it to create a simple custom hotkey “alias”. I’m on a MacBook Air running Linux (Gentoo).

import keyboard
import time

keyboard.clear_all_hotkeys()

keyboard.add_hotkey('win+c', lambda: keyboard.send('ctrl+c'))
keyboard.add_hotkey('win+v', lambda: keyboard.send('ctrl+v'))

keyboard.add_hotkey('win+l', lambda: keyboard.send('ctrl+l'))
keyboard.add_hotkey('win+e', lambda: keyboard.send('ctrl+l'))

while True:
    time.sleep(10)

On the script above, win+l and win+e are calling the same keyboard hotkey but only win+e works. I’m hitting those hotkeys on Chrome browser.

If I change those mappings to a debugger output:

keyboard.add_hotkey('win+c', lambda: print('ctrl+c'))
keyboard.add_hotkey('win+v', lambda: print('ctrl+v'))

keyboard.add_hotkey('win+l', lambda: print('ctrl+l'))
keyboard.add_hotkey('win+e', lambda: print('ctrl+l'))

I do see the output on the console. Do you have any idea what could be cause these events to not be correctly processed by chrome?

P.S.: I don’t think it’s relative to Chrome, as the same hotkeys don’t work on other applications (e.g. termite).

[boppreh]

Hmm, the suppress code is even trickier than the hotkey code, and was introduced by a pull request. I’ll have to take some time to check it, but it may take some days.

And by the way thanks for the bug reports. These are very useful.

[boppreh]

Your code was not working because of the keyboard.is_pressed(part) part when checking if the hotkey has been completed. When the handler is called, the key has already been registered as released and therefore the check fails.

The fix was indeed tricky, but I implemented on the master branch as a trigger_on_release flag. Please let me know if you find any problems with it.