BTT intercepts left option key

Bugs or Unexpected Behavior
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BTT intercepts left option key. If I quit BTT, the problem goes away.

Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trackpad, Touch Bar, etc.):

MacBook Pro keyboard

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Device information:

  • Type of Mac: MacBook Pro 16-inch 2019
  • macOS version: 13.4.1 (c)
  • BetterTouchTool version: BTT version is 4.173

Additional information (e.g. crash logs, related issues, etc.):

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In general modifier keys can not be intercepted at the level on which BTT works.
You can assign functions to them in BTT but BTT can not block them if they are pressed on their own.

Maybe you have defined a key sequence in BTT that does something when option is pressed? Or maybe a keyboard shortcut, which now doesn't work outside of BTT anymore?

This is most likely not a bug, but some configuration issue. Can you describe in more detail in which situations the left option key doesn't work anymore?

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Hi Andreas,

Strangely, only the left option key is affected. The right option key works normally.

I don't see anything in my BTT settings that would affect the option key.

I'm using the left option key with the left and right cursor keys to move from word to word during text editing. I'm also using the left option key as part of the cmd-opt-shift-del key sequence to immediately and permanently delete an item from a removable drive.

Quitting BTT makes the left option key functional again.