Bug: Default Hotkey "Ctrl, Alt + Q" makes it impossible to type "@" on German keyboards

[EpicLPer]

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Describe the bug
For the past days I've been wondering why I can't type the "@" symbol on my keyboard anymore. After digging around and realizing that the only app I've installed lately was HASS.Agent I found that the default hotkey of "Ctrl, Alt + Q" is resulting in this. The combination or "Alt Gr + Q" is usually reserved for @ on that layout. Disabling the hotkey inside HASS.Agent makes @ work again just fine.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Have a German keyboard
2. Install HASS.Agent
3. The hotkey is by default enabled, so the bug should be reproducible at this point already

Expected behavior
"@" symbol should still work on German keyboards

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Misc info (please complete the following information):

• Windows build (ideally screenshot/info of winver.exe output): Windows 11 23H2
• Windows' UI language: English (German Keyboard)
• HASS.Agent version: 2.1.0-beta1

Please check what's applicable (multiple answers possible):

• Installed via installer
• Installed manually
• Problem occurs in HASS.Agent
• Problem occurs in Satellite Service

Additional context
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[amadeo-alex]

While I don't think that having both the hotkey and "@" working at the same time, I think we can add a logic that will alter the default hotkey if german keyboard layout is detected.
Any "german safe" hotkey combinations that you can suggest?

[EpicLPer]

From my tests "AltGr + H" should fit well :)
Else, potential different solution: Detect the layout > If it's German warn the user and ask him to make a new shortcut

[amadeo-alex]

Now I'm surprised, there is a check for "input language" being German in the code already :D
Did you by any chance receive that during the initial onboarding/configuration after installation?
Should be something like:

Your input language '{0}' is known to collide with the default CTRL-ALT-Q hotkey. Please set your own.

I'll also check if there is difference between C# input language and keyboard layout - maybe this is what we're missing.

[amadeo-alex]

@EpicLPer could you please execute following in powershell and provide me with output?

Get-WinUserLanguageList

It should respond back with something like this:

[EpicLPer]

Hi, sorry for the late reply.
The output is as follows:

LanguageTag     : de-AT
Autonym         : Deutsch (Österreich)
EnglishName     : German
LocalizedName   : German (Austria)
ScriptName      : Latin
InputMethodTips : {0C07:00000407}
Spellchecking   : True
Handwriting     : False

LanguageTag     : en-AT
Autonym         : English (Austria)
EnglishName     : English
LocalizedName   : English (Austria)
ScriptName      : Latin
InputMethodTips : {2000:00000407}
Spellchecking   : True
Handwriting     : False

[amadeo-alex]

Reopened until 2.1.0-beta2 is released for clarity sake.

[erd82]

Having exactly the same problem, that I cannot type email addresses (at-key) anymore once HASS Agent is running. So the application cannot run constantly in the background.

[amadeo-alex]

Having exactly the same problem, that I cannot type email addresses (at-key) anymore once HASS Agent is running. So the application cannot run constantly in the background.

To fix that for now, please modify the hotkey shortcut to something else like Alt+H.
Next version fo HASS.Agent will warn about this during onboarding.