From 5c1be59b68cf48545c93326cbf6137e1289961ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mohamed Boudra <boudra.moha@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2026 13:27:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] test(terminal): isolate Linux keyboard policy from the host
 platform

---
 packages/app/e2e/browser/terminal-find.spec.ts | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/app/e2e/browser/terminal-find.spec.ts b/packages/app/e2e/browser/terminal-find.spec.ts
index 56159b49c4..91e8e5826a 100644
--- a/packages/app/e2e/browser/terminal-find.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/app/e2e/browser/terminal-find.spec.ts
@@ -297,7 +297,19 @@ test.describe("macOS terminal shortcuts", () => {
   });
 });
 
+async function useLinuxKeyboardPlatform(page: Page) {
+  // A user agent alone leaves navigator.platform as MacIntel on macOS hosts.
+  // Emulate both browser identity fields before the app reads its keyboard policy.
+  const session = await page.context().newCDPSession(page);
+  await session.send("Emulation.setUserAgentOverride", {
+    userAgent:
+      "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+    platform: "Linux x86_64",
+  });
+}
+
 test("Linux terminal chords keep Control, Alt and Meta distinct", async ({ page }) => {
+  await useLinuxKeyboardPlatform(page);
   await openKeyboardCapture(page);
   await expectTerminalChords(page, [
     { key: "Meta+ArrowLeft", bytes: "" },
@@ -318,6 +330,7 @@ test("Linux terminal chords keep Control, Alt and Meta distinct", async ({ page
 });
 
 test("opens Find with Control+f on Linux without sending ^F to cat", async ({ page }) => {
+  await useLinuxKeyboardPlatform(page);
   await openControlCharacterTerminal(page);
   await pressTerminalShortcut(page, "Control+f");
   await expect(query(page)).toBeFocused();