My modifier keys on my MacBook Pro have stopped working as expected, how can I fix them?
First I'll highlight I've been using this MacBook for about 3 months, it's my first Mac in 7 years, in between I've been using Thinkpads.
This sounds really odd, but the other day I powered up my MacBook pro and my modifier keys had stopped working as expected.
If I'm in Microsoft Office, say Excel, then ctrl-c
and ctrl-v
work as expected but in other applications commands like cmd-c
and cmd-v
don't.
The commands for taking a screenshot don't work.
The commands for navigating between windows and applications (cmd-tab
and cmd-tilde
) don't work.
In my IDE, none of the commands that involved navigating (optn-cmd-arrow keys
) work,
copy/paste doesn't work, nothing that involves a modifier and a function keys works.
I am at a complete loss as to why this is the case.
As best I can tell everything looks OK in the configuration, but I haven't used Mac in a while so I'm not sure.
I have not made any changes beyond installing an ANSI keyboard (the MacBook itself has a Nordic layout) but this has been fine for months. How can I troubleshoot/fix this?
Turns out this was a function of my Varmilo M108 keyboard. The Windows key was disabled, which you can do by pressing fn
+ Windows
key. You re-enable it by pressing the same keys again.
I'd bet it was my cat walking across the keyboard that did it when I wasn't in the room.
The Windows
key doubles as the CMD
key on mac.