Karabiner-elements: Disabling Left Shift doesn't work

[itstuesday799]

hello everyone, my macbook air left shift key is stuck and so I have karabiner elements set up to remap left shift to vk_none. The forced "capslock" is gone but all the other little things that come with a stuck left shift (browser opening new windows for all tabs, not being able to select a single file, slow animations, etc.) still exist. They sometimes, though rarely disappear until I shut down the pc/close it. I wanted to know if there is something I can do about it.
Thanks a lot :)

(MBA 2013, macos 10.12, Karabiner Elements 0.90.83)

[Niflis]

I have the same issue, actually posted a thread about it 20 minutes ago.
did you find anysolution ?
noticed that the l_shift flag is being triggered in the karabiner event viewer.
maybe it is possible to remove the flag via the son file. but not sure how it works..

[itstuesday799]

Nope, still haven't found any solution.
You mean remove the l_shift down flag from the macOS system files? might be possible though i'm not a dev. maybe one could help us out

[MKEPPP]

ANY HELP? I CANT DISABLE MY SHIFT KEY (IT GOT STUCK TWO YEARS AGO AND I USED KARABINER TO FIX IT BUT IT STOPPED WORKING TODAY (EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY HAD THE SIERRA UPDATE...WEIRD) HENCE THE SHOUTY CAPS :)

I DOWNLOADED KARABINER ELEMENTS AND CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO DISABLE A KEY. I FOUND THIS_https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/issues/145 BUT I AM NOT SURE I UNDERSTAND HOW TO GO ABOUT DOING THIS (I DONT KNOW HOW TO CODE BUT I CAN DO IT IF SOMEONE WALKS ME THROUGH IT)

THANKS FOR ANY HELP AND SORRY ABOUT MY SHOUTY CAPS!!

[Niflis]

Hi @MKEPPP
Open up Karabiner E and go in to preferences.
on "simple modifications" put the l_shift or R_shift (depending on the faulty key) in the "from key"
and in the "to key" put "vk_none (disable this key)"

This should work for you, i'm not on my mac atm, so can't confirm that this is the correct keys/tabs but should be something like that.

but please note that even when i have this set for my l_shift i still get issues sometime and the shift is activated and i go all caps etc,
try the above and reply if it worked.

[Niflis]

found a Picture. please see attached.

[squaredoranges]

@itstuesday799 @Niflis did you ever find a solution? I am running into the same issue. The forced caps lock is on but the Shift flag still shows up in the event viewer for all mouse events. It's quite annoying to browse and be forced to open new windows sometimes.

[Niflis]

Well for me karabiner E stops the shift flag.
But sometimes it stops to work.
Once computer is restarted karabiner does its job and shift flag is
removed. Not sure why it stops working..

lör 15 juli 2017 kl. 18:58 skrev squaredoranges [e-mail]:

@itstuesday799 https://github.com/itstuesday799 @Niflis
https://github.com/niflis did you ever find a solution? I am running
into the same issue. The forced caps lock is on but the Shift flag still
shows up in the event viewer for all mouse events. It's quite annoying to
browse and be forced to open new windows sometimes.

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[maxoubvs]

Hi !
@itstuesday799 @Niflis I have exactly the same issue with Karabiner E. Has anyone found a solution?

[AKate4764]

I just upgraded to Sierra today and regret it immensely because Karabiner is no longer working for my stuck shift key. Okay so here's what I somewhat figured out. Since the pressing of a shift key is the change of a flag, it being held down is that flag constantly set to "on." So since it's stuck, it's default state is "on." So while the flag is still on, the "vk_none" makes it ignore that flag when typing I suppose, but not when doing anything else. If there's some way to set the default flag to "off" then that would solve all of our problems. I'm continuing to look into a lot of the code and trying to see what I can find.

[maxoubvs]

Ok ! For me Karabiner E works, but sometimes i need to reboot my mac. Let me know if you find something ;)

[Niflis]

Same for me, the flag is turned off by Karabiner. But sometimes it get
activated again and a reboot is needed..
if we could find a way to actually turn off the flag for a specific shift
button, everything would be great 😊
ons 23 aug. 2017 kl. 08:24 skrev maxoubvs [e-mail]:

Ok ! For me Karabiner E works, but sometimes i need to reboot my mac. Let
me know if you find something ;)

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[PsykikHunter]

what i did was enable it to start before login, then restart. Now the icon is NOT in the status bar, but all my modifications work and shift key is properly disabled. You can enable it to start before login in one of the windows inside the preferences panel, cant remember which. (too afraid to open karabiner to see in case it stops it working :) )

[AKate4764]

:o You're absolutely right PsykikHunter! It's under the misc tab and then you can set it as System Default Configuration. You're a life saver!

[maxoubvs]

Works for me too ! Now i don't need to reboot my MacBook, thx a lot !!
Someone knows if Karabiner-Elements works on macOS Hight Sierra? (without reboot)

[Niflis]

No idea how it works now, but they had some issues with the H Sierra beta.
But since the update is kind of a minor, with some security issues and freezing (read that somewhere) I'm going to wait with the update until I know more,
but if anyone here tries, please report how its working.
we shiftstuckies need to watch each others backs :)

[maxoubvs]

Yesterday my Macbook was slow, i needed to reboot :(

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[dimpledesign]

Hi @MKEPPP
Open up Karabiner E and go into preferences.
on "simple modifications" put the l_shift or R_shift (depending on the faulty key) in the "from key"
and in the "to key" put "vk_none (disable this key)"

This should work for you, I'm not on my mac atm, so can't confirm that this is the correct keys/tabs but should be something like that.

but please note that even when I have this set for my l_shift I still get issues sometime and the shift is activated and I go all caps etc,
try the above and reply if it worked.

this worked for me.
thank you!

[dimpledesign]

I have been trying to fix this issue and after spending a lot of time on the internet, I read this. It was almost my last hope. And it worked. I can work in peace again. Thank You!

[Aartin18]

Hey guys i have almost the same problem :

I spilled alcool on my macbook air (mid 2014 A1465), with OSX10.15.6 and a NVME SSD update (crutial pie 7) after driing and resting one of my shift or cap lock is always on, and have a weird behavior

when i boot my mac shift is on, so it boots on safe mode --> I can boot in normal mode reseting the NRAM with the cmd+alt+P+R.

when the mac boots, cap is always on, with karabiner eventviewer no flag is detected

when i close my mac and reopens it, it's now possible for me to write normaly but the rest of the system still behave like shift is pressed ( a hell for navigation)

disabling caps lock and shift in karabiner does nothing, disabling caps lock in preferences does nothing as well

BUT in karabiner-elements' log i got that message : " [info] [grabber] caps lock is found on Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
"
In Karabiner-EventViewer left_shift is undetected, but caplock and right_shift are detected

Even weirder when i updated OS X, everything worked well for a short time and then the problems went back

So now i wonder if my issue is due to the spill (and i'll rebuy a keyboard) or due to the NVME compatibility with mac.

If you have any cue i'll be thanksfull !