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keyboard manager steals completely CTRL after few hours of running
Microsoft PowerToys version
0.84.0
Installation method
PowerToys auto-update
Running as admin
None
Area(s) with issue?
Keyboard Manager
Steps to reproduce
keys CTRL+ F8-F12 assigned as multimedia shortcuts (play, next, prev, volume). Then work few hours with PC.
✔️ Expected Behavior
not affected keys
❌ Actual Behavior
affected CTRL, after few hours no application responds to (left) CTRL. Only power-toys created shortcut still works.
Other Software
No response
I experience the same issue randomly: some days it happens up to five times, while other days it doesn't occur at all. To restore all shortcuts, I must terminate 'Keyboardmanager' in Task Manager and restart PowerToys, which resolves the problem.
Same here: But whatever I do, it will reoccur after 30mins.
- Machine starts with PT active
- After 30mins tops left
totally disappears and NONE of the trained shortcuts works at all: v would bring v and so on - Killing and restarting PT fixes this for 30 mins
- Everything happens again, again and again
Are we the only 3 people on the planet? Even the most recent update from yesterday won't do anything. What is going on Microsoft?
Happens daily now for me. Have to disable Keyboard Manager and enable it again to make the issue diseappear. But comes back after a few hours or half-hour... Behavior is as if I was pushing the CTRL key all the time. My assignement: CTRL+backspace to simulate a delete on a MacBook Pro i9 running Win10 and apple magic keyboard
Behavior is as if I was pushing the CTRL key all the time.
Absolutely! I also noticed that using my CTRL frequently back-to-back seems to be the culprit. But I'm still on the hunt for that magic moment when this occurs.
Right now, that 'bug' has popped up for me again, after almost 2 weeks without any issues. Additionally, I've noticed that if the bug occurs and I leave my keyboard untouched for about 3-5 minutes, everything returns to normal as if I had set it up in PT – quite amusing!
Me too. My environment is: Windows 10 22H2, and using via remote desktop from Windows 11 23H2 client. The trouble is occurring on Windows 10(remote PC) side. When this trouble occurred, turn off and turn on only Keyboard Manager, then is resolved(temporarily...)
If I remember correctly, this has been happening since Release v0.84.0. May be the following changes are relevant. (from release note:)
Keyboard Manager
- Convert RemapBufferRow to a struct with descriptive field names. Thanks @masaru-iritani!
- Fixed issue causing stuck Ctrl key when shortcuts contain AltGr key.
I found a usable workaround: Uninstall any recent version of PT you have and install 0.83.0. That works for me on 2 machines now. Give it a shot.