From a5f8b577c50e9498c43f7d4d9a25287673244c0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Romain Vimont <rom@rom1v.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 01:23:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Ignore text events for shortcuts

Pressing Alt+c generates a text event containing "c", so "c" was sent to
the device when --prefer-text was enabled.

Ignore text events when the mod state matches a shortcut modifier.
---
 app/src/input_manager.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/src/input_manager.c b/app/src/input_manager.c
index b954fbd9..78cf19a7 100644
--- a/app/src/input_manager.c
+++ b/app/src/input_manager.c
@@ -269,6 +269,10 @@ rotate_client_right(struct screen *screen) {
 void
 input_manager_process_text_input(struct input_manager *im,
                                  const SDL_TextInputEvent *event) {
+    if (is_shortcut_mod(im, SDL_GetModState())) {
+        // A shortcut must never generate text events
+        return;
+    }
     if (!im->prefer_text) {
         char c = event->text[0];
         if (isalpha(c) || c == ' ') {