[MC-158613] Control + A Clears the text field instead of selecting all text

As of Game version 1.13+

Control + A no longer highlights all text in a field and now will just clear the field. This does NOT happen on other OS such as windows

Linked issues

is duplicated by

MC-144671 Instead of selecting text CTRL+A replaces it with letter "a"

MC-196170 On Ubuntu, In any text input, Ctrl+a deletes all the text and replaces it with 'a'.

MC-264330 Using ctrl combinations types the letter of the combination

relates to

MC-121278 Keybindings (e.g. Ctrl+A) are being mapped to the US keyboard layout even if you're using another layout

Comments

violine1101 2019-08-08T10:02:46Z

Which keyboard layout do you use?

Ryan Fisher 2019-08-09T02:10:43Z

English US

violine1101 2019-08-09T13:04:36Z

And does this issue only happen inside of Minecraft? Or does it affect other programs as well?

Ryan Fisher 2019-08-11T01:48:56Z

Only in Minecraft versions 1.13 and higher

Ryan Fisher 2020-03-01T21:49:02Z

Seems to be some package installed on LinuxMint causing the issue as it does not happen on Arch

shedaniel 2020-06-04T12:28:58Z

Ctrl-A does not work, it will just reset the entire text to "a".

Other keybinds also don't work, it looks like `charTyped` is called after `keyPressed`
is called, making it "type" the character after executing the shortcut.

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Minecraft 1.15.2 and 20w22a.