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Does --clearmodifiers make a difference, and/or holding Shift manually during the command?

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I can't hold shift during the command, but having Caps Lock active before the command made the letters show as capitals!

On the other hand, I get this:
myusername@Mint-17 ~ $ xdotool --clearmodifiers key Odiaeresis
xdotool: unrecognized option '--clearmodifiers'
Usage: xdotool

Am I doing something wrong? Or could this be an issue with the package from Ubuntu 14.04's repos?

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It would be xdotool key --clearmodifiers Odiaeresis probably, but this option is meant to ignore Caps Lock / Shift in your case.

But the addtional information you gave is a good indicator of where it goes wrong the probably.

You are using xdotool 1:3.20130111.1-5 then, aren't you?
It might be worth to try installing it from source / Git master and test it from there.

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xdotool key --clearmodifiers Odiaeresis does ignore Caps Lock.

I'm actually using 1:3.20130111.1-3.1.

Would you mind helping out a nooby noober? I downloaded the source, but when make, I get:
xdo.c:24:22: fatal error: X11/Xlib.h: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
^
compilation terminated.
make: ** [xdo.o] Erro 1

"Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado" means "File or directory not found".

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Sure. You can install build dependencies using:

sudo apt-get build-dep xdotool

And then try "make" again.
Afterwards "sudo make install" will install it, and "sudo make uninstall" would uninstall it again (it gets installed into /usr/local by defaul).

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Ok, I enabled sources, and used that command, which downloaded some things. But now I get a different error:
xdo.c:34:33: fatal error: xkbcommon/xkbcommon.h: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado
#include <xkbcommon/xkbcommon.h>

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Install libxkbcommon-dev:

~ % afs xkbcommon/xkbcommon.h
 >> apt-file search xkbcommon/xkbcommon.h
libxkbcommon-dev: /usr/include/xkbcommon/xkbcommon.h

apt-file is nice for lookups.

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Ok, it worked, I got xdotool version 3.20141217.1. I uninstalled the one from the repo, to be sure. But it still doesn't differentiate between odiaeresis and Odiareresis, both give me ö by default, and Ö if I have Caps Lock on (and ö if I have --clearmodifiers on, regardless of Caps Lock).

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Ok, that's good to know. Thanks for trying it.

I cannot help much further from here.

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Thank you for your attention. Those compiling lessons will sure be useful in the future.

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