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I'm trying to fake xinput events with xte:

xte "str $(echo '<ABC@gmail.com>')"

But, I get:

WQBC@g;qil<co;X

That's really weird, I'm using US keyboard and mapping, but xte gives this very different result.

UPDATE

Output from xte "str '<ABC@gmail.com>'"

4WQBC@g;qil<co;X4

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Does xte "str '<ABC@gmail.com>'" work? (This is probably not what you want (in the end), but for debugging...) – sr_ May 25 '12 at 9:09
@sr_ rather wired – warl0ck May 25 '12 at 9:21
@sr_ , i configured both french and english keyboard in xorg.conf , but since my current output has no problems , it shouldn't happen with xtr either – warl0ck May 25 '12 at 9:21
Hmm. Both outputs differ in the quotation marks only ('=4, apparently)... – sr_ May 25 '12 at 9:25
This discussion is enlightening (not sure if the patch helps, though) but apparently upstream fixed that issue – sr_ May 25 '12 at 9:28

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