⌘A on AZERTY keyboards open "Close Element" Popup

[PommeAuMiel]

Hi guys !

Description

Shortcut ⌘A (Select All) on macOS with Element Desktop Version 1.7.25 open a "Close Element" Popup instead of select all text.
It look like this issue is present not only on macOS, i try it on Debian 10, with french AZERTY also.

When i switch to QWERTY keymap, when i physically press ⌘Q (so ⌘A) it done good shortcut "select all".

Shortcut on Element macOS app :

Steps to reproduce

• Switch to non-US QWERTY keyboard or use AZERTY mapping
• Open Element Desktop
• Press ⌘A (or ctrl A on Windows/Linux)

This popup appears

This happen everywhere i click on the Element Window.

Version information

For the desktop app:
Test on:

• OS: macOS, Debian 10
• Version: 1.7.25

Thanks :)

[flyx]

The same thing happens when using the Neo layout on macOS and pressing ⌘X which should cut the currently selected text but instead opens this dialog.

Interestingly, the dialog is not shown when physically selecting Quit Element in the menu or hitting ⌘Q – in that case, Element simply closes.

[baptistefluzin]

Same issue, same element version, win 8.1, AZERTY keyboard, french language on. This is very annoying.

[Flandre5carlet]

Same problem on Windows 10; CTRL+A on a physical AZERTY keyboard opens up the "Are you sure you want to quit?" popup.

However interestingly enough, even when selecting "Close Element", it doesn't actually close anything for me, and selects all afterwards. It doesn't select anything when clicking "Cancel" on the popup.
It feels like it only "half-registers" CTRL+A as CTRL+Q instead (because of the key's position) - enough to show the quit confirmation prompt, but not enough to register it as a quit command so it ends up being a select all confirmation.

[SimonBrandner]

I can not repro on Linux (Debian 11 Bullseye, KDE+i3wm) /me is an idiot and has missed the whole keyboard layout thing

[Adrien-Luxey]

Same issue on Linux Mint, Element Desktop v1.7.25, AZERTY (precisely: French "variant")
The bug doesn't trigger when I set my keyboard layout to QWERTY (En-US).

Takeaway would be: it might not be a platform-specific bug, but a keyboard-layout-specific one.
Wondering how you devs found this bizarre behaviour x)

[nicolasgavalda]

Same issue after updating Element Desktop from 1.7.24 to 1.7.25 on ubuntu 20.04, AZERTY keyboard layout (French variant).

[Thatoo]

Same issue with CTRL+A after updating Element Desktop from 1.7.24 to 1.7.25 on Debian 10, AZERTY keyboard layout (French variant).

[germain-gg]

Désolé 😅

Thank you for reporting this issue, I have just opened a PR and this should cater for all keyboard layout.
It will probably land in the Nightly build tomorrow, and be available when Element v1.7.26 goes out

Edit: in the meantime... you can deactivate the prompt by going to your user preferences

• All settings > Preferences > General > Warn before quitting

[Adrien-Luxey]

Well that was fast, thank you!