Ctrl key not working on macos at all

[Flyingdot]

I am not able to use ctrl-key on my macOS installation at all. I tried it under different situations:

• with and without tmux
• fish and bash (with and without vim bindings)
• with and without my alacritty.yml

On Linux it works without a problem.

System

OS: macOS (BigSur)
Version: alacritty 0.7.2

Logs

Relevant print-events log of pressing ctrl+c (full log attached)

[2021-04-20 11:43:11.480847000] [INFO ] [alacritty] glutin event: WindowEvent { window_id: WindowId(Id(140642032336816)), event: KeyboardInput { device_id: DeviceId(DeviceId), input: KeyboardInput { scancode: 59, state: Pressed, virtual_keycode: Some(LControl), modifiers: CTRL }, is_synthetic: false } }
[2021-04-20 11:43:11.561127000] [INFO ] [alacritty] glutin event: WindowEvent { window_id: WindowId(Id(140642032336816)), event: KeyboardInput { device_id: DeviceId(DeviceId), input: KeyboardInput { scancode: 59, state: Released, virtual_keycode: Some(LControl), modifiers: (empty) }, is_synthetic: false } }
[2021-04-20 11:43:14.328316000] [INFO ] [alacritty] glutin event: WindowEvent { window_id: WindowId(Id(140642032336816)), event: KeyboardInput { device_id: DeviceId(DeviceId), input: KeyboardInput { scancode: 59, state: Pressed, virtual_keycode: Some(LControl), modifiers: CTRL }, is_synthetic: false } }
[2021-04-20 11:43:14.524914000] [INFO ] [alacritty] glutin event: WindowEvent { window_id: WindowId(Id(140642032336816)), event: KeyboardInput { device_id: DeviceId(DeviceId), input: KeyboardInput { scancode: 8, state: Pressed, virtual_keycode: Some(C), modifiers: CTRL }, is_synthetic: false } }
[2021-04-20 11:43:14.696313000] [INFO ] [alacritty] glutin event: WindowEvent { window_id: WindowId(Id(140642032336816)), event: KeyboardInput { device_id: DeviceId(DeviceId), input: KeyboardInput { scancode: 8, state: Released, virtual_keycode: Some(C), modifiers: CTRL }, is_synthetic: false } }
[2021-04-20 11:43:14.787490000] [INFO ] [alacritty] glutin event: WindowEvent { window_id: WindowId(Id(140642032336816)), event: KeyboardInput { device_id: DeviceId(DeviceId), input: KeyboardInput { scancode: 59, state: Released, virtual_keycode: Some(LControl), modifiers: (empty) }, is_synthetic: false } }

alacritty-printevents.log

[chrisduerr]

What are you expecting to happen?

[Flyingdot]

Like

• cancelling a process with ctrl+c
• using ctrl+a as my tmux hotkey
• ...

It's really like none of the shortcuts based on ctrl+something are working.

[chrisduerr]

Could you try with an empty configuration file please?

[chrisduerr]

Also do you use any form of special input handler on system level? Something like IME or window automation software?

[Flyingdot]

I did tried it with an empty configuration, without any success.

But by closing like every application which could cause such a problem, I noticed that I am using a special keyboard-layout (https://github.com/xv0x7c0/osx-us-altgr-intl). When I switch my layout to default US international, it's working.

But still it's kind of strange, since I am using this layout for years and it does not cause any problems in any other application.

[chrisduerr]

In that case this is somewhat of a duplicate of #458, though with third-party software/keymaps this is obviously a bit more complicated.

[adilw3nomad]

This was tripping me up for a while too; make sure you turn off the mission control short cuts that use Control | ^

You can do this by going to System preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts

[rigobot]

I did tried it with an empty configuration, without any success.

But by closing like every application which could cause such a problem, I noticed that I am using a special keyboard-layout (https://github.com/xv0x7c0/osx-us-altgr-intl). When I switch my layout to default US international, it's working.

But still it's kind of strange, since I am using this layout for years and it does not cause any problems in any other application.

Hello, did you fix this issue? I'm also using that keyboard layout and I noticed the same issue. Also with another terminal app by the way.