Control does not pull up menu

Title: Control does not pull up menu

I am trying to do the 'Hello world.' tutorial. When I press control to access the menu, nothing happens. I have not found a way to exit the program, except to leave the computer, destroy it and then replace it.

I have modified some of the controls in Minecraft (IE Attack is now controlled by the + key instead of the mouse, and the arrows are replaced by keys on the number pad.) I was wondering if that had something to do with it.

Thank you!

You mean this?

Okay, so after entering "edit helloworld" in the shell, were you able to type in:

print("Hello World!")

or something similar, and have that appear on the screen? Did you see "Press Ctrl to access menu" at the bottom of the screen?

When you went to press Ctrl to exit, did you use the left or the right control key?

Yes, that's the tutorial I used.

Yes, I was able to type that in, and it showed up just fine. Then I tried pressing ctrl, and nothing happened. Not sure which side I tried first, but I've tried it different times with the left and right ctrl buttons.

Test too delete your options.txt in your .minecraft, that will reset all options
Then try saving again, and adding option after option until the problem key is narrowed down

Thanks, I will try that and see if it works.

I tried deleting the options.txt file, but the ctrl key didn't work even without that in place.

greenwick, on 11 February 2013 - 03:05 PM said:

I tried deleting the options.txt file, but the ctrl key didn't work even without that in place.

Are you using a nonstandard keyboard?

I am afraid your ctrl key is broken on your part then.

Yes the control key is ethe broken or your options is just not configured right. I always us the left one and it works fine.

The keyboard is a standard one.

I am pretty sure the ctrl buttons aren't broken. Both work in other programs. When I tap one while changing controls in Minecraft, it does the animation that shows sonething registered, but it doesn't allow me to replace any of the existing controls with the ctrl tab.

It looks like it won't let me change any of the options to the Alt key either. When I do that, my computer opens a search outside of Minecraft. So I think this may be a linux thing instead. I'll see if anyone on the Ubuntu board has had rhis problem.

Thanks!

Oh. Important information like what OS you are using should not be left out in OP. :)/>

Try opening up the Lua prompt and entering this code:

while true do print(table.concat({os.pullEvent()}, ", ")) end

And then press left control and right control. Let us know what key codes, if any, appear.

I'm having the same problem in Ubuntu 12.10, using the FTB modpack. I tried the key test and it worked for everything apart from ctrl. Any ideas?

Actually I've found the issue, it was the show cursor in Ubuntu, disabling this solved it for me.

Similar issues in Kubuntu solved by using an up to date LWJGL.