Karabiner-elements: shift-click broken

Created on 12 Sep 2016 · 23Comments · Source: pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements

I just installed the latest Karabiner-Elements on my iMac running the Sierra GM. I love that the "fn" key once again works as left control, but shift-click no longer works to extend the selection. Reasonable trade-off, but slightly annoying.

Here's my karabiner.json:

{
    "profiles": [
        {
            "name": "Default profile",
            "selected": true,
            "simple_modifications": {
                "fn": "left_control"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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billstclair

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It also breaks command-click and command-shift-click, which I use all the time in Firefox, to open a link in a new tab. That is more than annoying.

billstclair on 12 Sep 2016

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It also breaks command-click and command-shift-click, which I use all the time in Firefox, to open a link in a new tab. That is more than annoying.

billstclair on 12 Sep 2016

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On my end Cmd Click is also not working for Chrome. Event Viewer doesn't give any inside.

oschrenk on 13 Sep 2016

Strangely, Karabiner-EventViewer sees the Cmd and Shift flags on mouse clicks, when Karabiner-Elements is NOT running. Start Karabiner-Elements, however, and those flags no longer appear in Karabiner-EventViewer mouse clicks, though the FlagsChanged events still happen for the command and Shift keys.

billstclair on 13 Sep 2016

Indeed, same problem here. Command+Click for opening new tabs stopped working for me too.

niieani on 13 Sep 2016

Similar issue for me when Ctrl + Mouse swipe up (full screen zoom in). Is it possible that all key + mouse action combinations are broken?

mihkels on 13 Sep 2016

Hi, Ctrl + mouse zoom to zoom in screen doesn't work for me either after installing the nightly build and remapping right option -> forward delete on my 2015 MBP.
Karabiner.json:
{ "profiles": [ { "name": "Default profile", "selected": true, "simple_modifications": { "right_option": "delete_forward" } } ] }

tokyovigilante on 14 Sep 2016

Similar issue: option + click doesn't work. E.g. when clicking on the Airport icon in the menubar to view extra network information

TSFoster on 14 Sep 2016

Same issue.

khallmark on 15 Sep 2016

Same issue here, mod keys with click doesn't work.

leira on 16 Sep 2016

Where does the karabiner.json go? I can't find anything where one would actually put it...

tobsn on 16 Sep 2016

@tobsn Does this link help?

talha131 on 16 Sep 2016

@talha131 yeah i found that a minute after asking when I decided to look into the code to find the part where it initially loads the json... *facepalm

thanks ;)

btw. combinations are not possible atm right? like command_r+7

tobsn on 16 Sep 2016

btw. combinations are not possible atm right? like command_r+7

Yeah they are not until #16 gets fixed.

talha131 on 16 Sep 2016

Thank you for feedback!
This issue is caused by OS X problem, and it needed large changes to avoid this problem.

I fixed this issue at Karabiner-Elements v0.90.22.
Please upgrade to the latest version from "Misc > Check for updates" or
https://pqrs.org/latest/karabiner-elements-latest.dmg

tekezo on 19 Sep 2016

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I can confirm this issue is fixed.

talha131 on 19 Sep 2016

Me too, thanks!

tokyovigilante on 19 Sep 2016

I updated via "Misc > Check for updates". It took a long time, but finally brought up the app and asked me to identify my keyboard by pressing the key to the right of the left "shift" key. I did so, and nothing happened. I closed the dialog with the red circle on its upper-left-hand corner.

Karabiner-Elements then worked as expected, swapping the fn and control keys on my keyboard, as I specified in ~/.karabiner.d/configuration/karabiner.json. And shift and command work again with mouse clicks.

I can't use it, however, since it breaks things I rely on in Emacs. But I'll open a new issue for that, since it will effect only a small audience, and close this one.

billstclair on 19 Sep 2016

I had the same issue as @billstclair. My keyboard was not identified, but after closing the dialog everything worked as expected.

runar on 20 Sep 2016

but finally brought up the app and asked me to identify my keyboard by pressing the key to the right of the left "shift" key. I did so, and nothing happened. I closed the dialog with the red circle on its upper-left-hand corner.

I too faced the same issue. I closed the identify keyboard dialog, uninstalled old version of Karabiner-Elements, and did a fresh install.

talha131 on 20 Sep 2016

Can confirm, I had to do a manual re-install. Updated yesterday and still wasn't working, but a fresh reinstall today fixed the issue.

jphenow on 22 Sep 2016

Looks like this is still not fully fixed. Randomly, after many hours of work, it sometimes stops working. Turning Karabiner Elements off and on again fixes it for some time, but it breaks again after a couple of hours.

niieani on 29 Sep 2016

Was noticing the same thing today ☝️

jphenow on 29 Sep 2016

I created new issue #204 for this problem, since discussing it in closed one not seems to be a good idea.