rust-windowing / rust-windowing/winit

Beeps on Ctrl-/

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Description

Description

When pressingctrl-/ there's a beep coming apparently from the system. This has been reported both for Alacritty https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3014 and Neovide https://github.com/neovide/neovide/issues/2984.

According to the Alacritty issue a workaround is to map a shortcut that handles the combination, but Neovide does not deal with key combinations directly, and I think that winit should deal with the case of it not being mapped.

macOS version
macOS 14.7.1 (23H222)
Winit version

0.30.7

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the Ctrl-/ beep on macOS 14.7.1 with winit 0.30.7, then trace the platform keyboard handling involved in unmapped key combinations. Done means the combination no longer produces the system beep without requiring an application shortcut, with regression coverage if the existing tests support it.

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Assessment

Tech stack
macos, rust
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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