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keyboard keybinding special key cannot be used

Alice Mao

when screen controlling another shared screen, cannot type any special characters

(. / , < > ) etc

December 14, 2021

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Vincent Meyer

Same issue for me on MacOS 12.5.1. 
I have a macbook pro, so I'm using the macbook keyboard. 
I have an AZERTY keyboard and can't tap . and / characters. 
But I can't tap some numbers neither, like 0 or 7 where some others are working fine. 
We are using POP as pair programming tool, so it's very very frustrating. This is the only major issue for us.

Christian Hedin

This problem makes Pop pretty unusable for us (we're currently evaluating). The only solution is for me to move the mouse cursor to my screen and click then go back to the screen thats shared with me. Then I can type special chars for 10-30 seconds, then I have to do the same manoeuvre again. Extremely frustrating.

Sean Healy

I'm also seeing this. I've noticed that if I click back to my computer then back to the remote session it seems I'm able to use these special characters again. But, then if I try to

cmd-tab

or something I loose them. Related to this it seems like I can also no longer

cmd-tab

on remote machines.

Ryan Taylor

I'm also having this issue. Running on an intel MBP, OSX 11.6 and have had this issue with multiple pairs. IIRC they were using built-in macbook keyboards

J Sherwani (Pop Team)

What hardware keyboards are each of you using?

John Calvin Young

J Sherwani (Pop Team): I primarily use my Ultimate Hacker Keyboard v1, but I tried hitting the same keys on my built-in MBP keyboard and they didn't work there either.

Madhava Jay

J Sherwani (Pop Team): Apple Magic Keyboard new one without Touch ID but no idea about my partners windows PC.

John Calvin Young

Noticed this this morning, sharing a display from coworker on MacOS 12.1 to my MacOS 12.0.1 machine. I couldn't type . or /, which made screensharing pretty useless. Both are using US standard keyboard layouts, and both arm64 2021 MBPs. My Pop version is v8.0.35 | v8.0.9 right now, checking a couple hours after the incident.

Madhava Jay

Yes, this also happened to me. I am on US / AU English Keyboard on a Mac and I couldn't type much useful code on my Peers Brazillian Windows Machine. Also I expected copy and paste to work but that didn't seem to work either. Is that something which could be added as well?