secondlife / secondlife/viewer
[Mac] Text character accent bubble appears when using WASD for movement
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Description
On Mac laptops, when using the WASD keys for movement, using the A and D keys (to turn your avatar, etc) will cause a small character accent menu bubble to appear near chat menus or the cursor. This does happen in Firestorm as well, but does not happen on Mac desktops so I suspect some sort of keybinding conflict unique to an Apple laptop default. I can recall this going back a few years, on older Intel macbooks and persists on modern M4 MacBook Pros. This may be a repeat of another feedback post but thought I'd bump it with this posting.
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Research direction
No files or tests are named. First reproduce the accent bubble on a Mac laptop while using A and D for movement, then trace the viewer's keyboard handling; done means movement still works without showing the character accent menu on affected laptops.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, macos
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100