🐞 Loop triggered by sound or brightness keys
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- Dominant language
- Swift
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Description
Bug Description
When we change the brightness or sound and hit an arrow key, it triggers the loop
Affected Scope
User interface
Steps to Reproduce
- Tap on a sound key on your keyboard
- Tap the left key on your keyboard
- See what happens
Reproducibility
Always
Expected vs Actual Behavior
It shouldn’t trigger as if it was the globe key
Screen Recordings / Screenshots
Severity
Major (workaround exists)
macOS Version
Tahoe 26.5.2 (25F84)
Loop Version
ersion 1.4.2 (1693)
Did You Try the Development Build?
No
Additional Context
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- This is a single bug (multiple bugs should be reported individually).
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue in Loop 1.4.2 on macOS Tahoe by pressing a sound or brightness key followed by the left arrow key. Trace the macOS UI keyboard handling for these keys; done means arrow keys no longer trigger the loop as if the globe key had been pressed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, swift
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 58/100