[ROS2 foxy] RQT publisher not working properly.

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I have ROS2 foxy installed on a ubuntu 20.04 VM. I am using RQT to publish certain topics to start my code. I source the underlay and overlay on the terminal screen where I start the RQT session. When I publish a Boolean ros2 topic '/hello' using the topic publisher tab on RQT, and I set the message to True, the topic gets published at the correct rate but still latches onto the False message instead of changing to True (on the RQT topic monitor). When I publish the same topic from the terminal screen, the topic monitor shows the change from false to true. Has anybody encountered this bug before?