Firefox captures alt before xkeysnail about xkeysnail HOT 11 CLOSED

Try toggling Firefox's about:config options ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses and maybe accessibility.accesskeycausesactivation to False. I think the first option is the one that actually disables the Alt menu activation problem you mentioned.

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Ha! Now it works! Thank you very much! I Didn't know Firefox had access to that level of settings.
Only thing I had to change was ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses to false. I should have maybe googled a bit more before jumping into conclusions.

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Perhaps I've misunderstood the concept, but hasn't something already gone awry if Firefox is able to grab a keypress before xkeysnail? Couldn't there then be any number of similar exceptions?

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I'm having this same problem with Slack. Does anyone know how to make Alt shortcuts work with Slack? It captures the alt key before xkeysnail and focuses on the menu.

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If I'm not mistaken Slack is an electron app and it so it is basically a chrome browser. If you figure out how to do that for chrome you may be able to find the same settings inside slack. I'm mainly using firefox directly for similar applications myself but it would be nice to know how to make those work.

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Edit: ignore this, it seems to work now. Perhaps some restart made it work

Has something changed with Firefox since the earlier comments? Setting ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses and accessibility.accesskeycausesactivation to false doesn't allow Alt keys to work for me.

(I'm a new user, so haven't seen it work)

Firefox 87.0, Ubuntu 20.04, Gnome Shell 3.36, Xorg (non-Wayland)

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Has something changed with Firefox since the earlier comments? Setting ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses and accessibility.accesskeycausesactivation to false doesn't allow Alt keys to work for me.

(I'm a new user, so haven't seen it work)

Firefox 87.0, Ubuntu 20.04, Gnome Shell 3.36.

Works fine on Firefox 87.0, Ubuntu 20.04 wayland(I didin't know this was even supposed to work on that), and on xmonad on to of ubuntu on xorg. I didin't manage to open xorg ubuntu with gnome as I seem to have too many configurations on top.
All I have is ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses on false. Have you checked that it works outside of firefox?

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Sorry for the off-topic comment.

Is Firefox running on xwayland?
I'd be curious if xkeysnail completely works on gnome wayland already

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I am using Xorg, not Wayland, but now for some reason it works. I don't know what changed, but perhaps a full Firefox restart? I thought I restarted, but I use two Firefox profiles and probably only restarted them one at a time, if that could make a difference. Whatever it is, my alt keys are working now in Firefox and elsewhere. Sorry for any false alarm.

Love that it now works - very happy to have basic Emacs keys everywhere...

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Sorry for the off-topic comment.

Is Firefox running on xwayland?
I'd be curious if xkeysnail completely works on gnome wayland already

Seems to work on at least the wayland I got with ubuntu 20.04. I haven't used this at all, just accidentally tested on wayland and everything seems to have worked perfectly so far. I can do painting and kill text and key combinations also.

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Huh, I was puzzled about mine fixing itself but convinced myself it must have been something to do with logging out and back in. But now mine has seemingly spontaneously stopped translating Firefox Alt keys again. I can't think what has changed. Firefox didn't update, about:config options still set. Of course I've restarted xkeysnail, logged out and in, and rebooted.

It must be something about my setup, since nobody else is complaining, but I can't think what.

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