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Posted by wouterb
wouterb
1,307 Points

' and " don't work in console from Workspaces in Firefox [Solved]

' and " etc. in the console from Workspaces don't work in Firefox (at least in Linux). Does work in Chrome. Could you try fixing this?

wouterb
wouterb
1,307 Points

As a workaround I just use the local Xfce Terminal, so it's not a huge problem for me, or I can use repl.it

Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,454 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,454 Points

Can you be more specific of what's not working? I'm using Firefox 84.0 on Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS (ubuntu variant). In workspace console, I get:

treehouse:~/workspace$ echo 'single quotes' "double quotes"                                                                                     
single quotes double quotes

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wouterb
wouterb
1,307 Points
wouterb
wouterb
1,307 Points

I found a (or the) solution: I was using keyboard layout English US (Intl., with dead keys). What this layout does is, if you press for example ' it will do nothing until you also press an e or o, etc., (so you get é or ó) or a space instead, to only get the ' . The console does not support the "dead keys". So now I changed my keyboard layout to English US (Euro on 5) and then set the compose key (in my case Left Ctrl). The console also does not support use of the Compose key (only in Firefox, in Chrome this works fine), I hope I don't need the special characters in the console (the compose key is only needed to get the special characters, like é etc.).

Btw. The compose key to get the special characters does work in the top area of the workspace, it only doesn't work in the console area.

Edit: Left Ctrl is not recommended I see now, because I can't use the the copy and paste shortcuts etc. anymore.