I’ve hesitated bring this here for several days, but frankly, I’m suddenly plagued with a keyboard problem. Let me be clear about a couple of things: first, this only started recently (and it’s intermittent) and second, I’m not laying this at KM’s doorstep.
I’m looking for debugging suggestions.
About a week ago, right after triggering a KM shortcut (control-option-command-1) to type my full name (something I’ve done a zillion times over the years without an issue) my keyboard began acting as if the control-key was permanently down. Typing any key, became typing control-key. Weird and dangerous.
I plugged and unplugged the keyboard; plugged it into different hubs, or straight in. I turned off all software inits; turned off KM and started it over again; rebooted the machine; exported all my macros, deleted all traces of KM entirely, and reinstalled.
Of all those things, only rebooting worked… and then it would pop up again, suddenly. Sometimes it was as if the control key was always down, and sometime other modifiers, such as shift-lock, command or option.
One thing I think I noticed (sorry, but it’s not 100% repeatable) was that they keyboard would go into “weird mode” right after using a control-option-command macro.
And about 1/2 the time, repeating the control-option-command macro immediately would clear the error, and cause the issue to go away (for a while, at least).
Needless to say, this greatly interrupts my day, and needs to be resolved somehow.
I just now changed the control-option-command to control-shift in all my macros (although that will take some getting used to…)
And I have a sneaking suspicion that this -may- h ave something to do with the setting of the keyboard modifier keys in system prefs. I’m using a PC-style keyboard, so I have those set to swap the command & option keys.
Again, this has worked fine for years, but I did discover by looking at the keyboard viewer, that the swap would not operate correctly. That is, I’d make the swap, but keyboard viewer would show the physical key pressed, not the swapped keys (as it should).
At some point I got that working again, but that’s disconcerting, and makes me wonder if the file that tracks/records that swap for the OS got corrupted.
So, I’d make some changes and use Find Any File to look for files changed in the past minute… only to discover that there are always hundreds of them. The names are often cryptic, and even the file path is not of much help.
If anyone knows which file it is, I’d love to toss it out and see if that fixes it.
But if even that fails to work, has anyone got any suggestions (that I have not tried already, please) as to what might be going on?