AltGr + Space combination doesn’t work all of a sudden

[pzehner]

Windows Terminal version (or Windows build number)

1.11.*

Other Software

French Bépo keyboard layout.

Steps to reproduce

Using the French Bépo keyboard layout, I type the underscore key "_" with AltGr + Space.

Expected Behavior

Usually it just works.

Actual Behavior

Today, without any updates or changes in configuration, MS Terminal doesn’t type the character any more. Other AltGr combinations work, but not this one. Any other application (including PowerShell and CMD) can type the character normally.

Note: It is more likely that this behaviour started with the 1.11 version. 1.10.2714.0 is the latest behaving correctly.

Note 2: "all of a sudden" because MS Terminal updates itself automatically and I could not find a way to prevent that.

[nchataing]

Same here : by manually switching to the previous release it works again

[DHowett]

@lhecker @PankajBhojwani this is related to us binding alt+space to the system menu by default. Did we regress Alt/AltGr aliasing somehow?

[arthaud]

Same here.
By the way, hello Paul :)

[Siphonay]

I am also encountering this issue

[at-github]

Same as well, i didn’t see shortcut overwriting this combination

[pzehner]

I confirm that the problem does not appear by manually downgrading to 1.10.2714.0.

[crequill]

I have the same problem with terminal 1.11.2921.0 but it’s corrected in terminal 1.12.2931.0.

[Geobert]

Same issue for me, bépo as well. It's very annoying as it's how we type _ (underscore) in this layout :-/

[Siphonay]

Can confirm the issues seems to be fixed in Preview Release 1.12.2931.0

[chikamichi]

A few days back, I installed 1.12.2931.0 and it seemed to be fixed. But all of a sudden, in stopped working. No tooling/version change, no keyboard layout change.

[lhecker]

Hmm indeed this is hard to reproduce... I've downloaded the portable version and AltGr+Space produces "_".

[Siphonay]

Hmm indeed this is hard to reproduce... I've downloaded the portable version and AltGr+Space produces "_".

Be aware that the portable version is a PKL, which are repackaged AutoHotKey scripts, and not a proper keyboard layout per se, so this and the actual Windows keyboard layout package may exhibit different behavior

[pzehner]

Even downgrading the terminal to the latest 1.10 version and pinning it (I am using Chocolatey), the application automatically updates itself like once a week and I end with the broken 1.11 version…

[lhecker]

This line was introduced in the 1.11 branch with #10988 and should say IsLeftAltPressed() (if we had that):

terminal/src/cascadia/TerminalControl/TermControl.cpp

Line 912 in 7b77568

if (vkey == VK_SPACE && modifiers.IsAltPressed())

In the 1.12 branch we switched to using regular actions with #11086. Since actions are never run for AltGr key combinations, this fixes the issue for 1.12 and later.
For 1.11 I fixed this issue in #11832. The fix isn't particularly beautiful, but I believe it's enough for an older release like that. 😅

[Dragnalith]

same problem here with version 1.11.2921.0

EDIT: I confirm it is fixed in Windows Terminal Preview (1.12.2931.0)

[DHowett]

This fix merged into release-1.11 and will be released shortly. 😄

[ghost]

🎉This issue was addressed in #11832, which has now been successfully released as Windows Terminal v1.11.3471.0.:tada:

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