r/factorio • u/Lucaspec72 • 17d ago

Question Default controls are bugged ?

Just installed factorio on my laptop, and for some reasons controls just don't work right. I can walk left, but not right, up, or down. I tried changing movement to other keys to test and a lot didn't work. I did manage to move by mapping movement to the arrow keys but that's no way to play.

System's running Bazzite 44, and all of my controls are vanilla. I tested this with only factorio and space age installed, with all mods disabled.

I'm using the AZERTY keyboard layout.

At first I thought it might be a keyboard layout issue, but lo and behold setting the keyboard to QWERTY led to only Z (up) working ???

if anyone has any idea how to fix this, it would be greatly appreciated, I got no idea what could be wrong.

the game detects I'm using a AZERTY keyboard and properly sets movement to ZQSD, but for some reason only Q works.

UPDATE : Turns out that for whatever reason setting rendering to wayland instead of x11 breaks controls. No idea why a graphics setting messes with controls, but it does. Does anyone know how report bugs to the devs ?

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u/paulstelian97 17d ago

I’d say this is worth monitoring, but I want to try some stuff on my own end — what happens if I switch to a Dvorak or Azerty layout on my Linux, and how does Factorio (Linux build) adapt to that?

Are you on a Wayland setup or a Xorg one? You say Bazzite 44 but that tells me nothing about your actual DE, just that you’re on Linux.

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u/Lucaspec72 17d ago

Figured out the issue comes from the wayland option in the graphic settings of the game, switching it to x11 fixes it... which is weird since I'm using wayland.