secondlife / secondlife/viewer
macOS accent menu appearing when walking using WASD keys
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Description
macOS has this handy feature, in which you can visually find an accent or special character by holding down a letter on your keyboard. The only issue with this is that this overlay keeps appearing when walking in Second Life using the WASD keys.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the accent menu on macOS while walking with the WASD keys, then trace the viewer's keyboard input handling. Done means the macOS accent overlay no longer appears during WASD movement without breaking normal text input.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, macos
- Domain
- desktop, game-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100