1password hijacks control+minus keybinding

milad

I noticed that my ctrl+- keybindings stop working when 1password is running.

Output of xev when 1password is not running and I press ctrl+minus:

KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
    root 0x214, subw 0x0, time 16255124, (348,375), root:(2288,405),
    state 0x0, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
    root 0x214, subw 0x0, time 16255311, (348,375), root:(2288,405),
    state 0x4, keycode 20 (keysym 0x2d, minus), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (2d) "-"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (2d) "-"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

and when 1password is running in the background:

KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x5e00001,
    root 0x214, subw 0x0, time 16378924, (1122,912), root:(3062,942),
    state 0x0, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

FocusOut event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x5e00001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusOut event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x5e00001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyPointer

FocusIn event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x5e00001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  2   0   0   0   32  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0  

I do not have that keybinding configured in 1password settings so to me this looks like a bug.

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1Password Version: 8.4.0
Extension Version: Not Provided
OS Version: linux 5.10

Mathieu_1P

Thanks for writing in @milad.

This definitely should not be happening. Would it be possible to provide a little more information about your system to help us track down what is happening here? The most useful information that comes to mind is;

• distribution (ex. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, ...) and it's version.
• desktop environment (ex. Gnome, KDE, XFCE, ...)
• are you running with xwayland
• what processor architecture are you using

milad

Thanks Mathieu!

Sure, I'm using:

• Arch linux with kernel 5.10.80
• i3 window manager on Xorg
• no wayland
• nvidia GPU
• CPU AMD Ryzen 5

Mathieu_1P

Thanks for that information Milad, I'll dig into this a bit today and see if my colleagues have any ideas. I did forget to list another item which may be useful in this case, would you mind telling me what keyboard layout you use?

Also, could you try clearing all those keyboard shortcuts and see if the problem still happens then?

milad

That does make the problem go away! In fact Ctrl+\ seems to be the culprit here. If I add that keybinding to any action it hijacks Ctrl+- but without it other keybindings are fine.

btw I'm using an ISO (i.e. European) keyboard layout if that's relevant. My keyboard layout is configured with setxkbmap gb,ir -option 'grp:rctrl_rshift_toggle'

Mathieu_1P

Thank you for trying that out Milad. The keyboard layout does seem quite relevant. If I'm not mistaken, the \ shares a physical key with - on that keyboard layout which would suggest this is another manifestation of a bug we are tracking internally for keyboard shortcuts. I can't say how quickly we are going to address this specific issue but we will hopefully get some time to fix it soon.

milad

Are there any updates on this bug? This still happens as of 8.7.0

milad

@Mathieu_1P just checking, is a fix on the agenda?

Mathieu_1P

Sorry about that response delay @milad, I've been on vacation and missed my notifications. I don't know if any team members are dedicated to this effort at the moment. This issue does seem to originate in the upstream electron code so it may take a little longer than some other bugs to get a fix into stable. I'm really sorry about the inconvenience.

milad

I have a few electron apps and 1password is the only one affected by this. :(