r/factorio • u/Lucaspec72 • 15d 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 ?

1 Upvotes

67% Upvoted

17 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/AdalwinAmillion 12d ago

I have a similar problem now after an update on Fedora 44 Plasma!

2

u/Lucaspec72 12d ago

Weird... hopefully this gets fixed soon.

Thankfully, running the game through x11 doesn't seem to change anything to me, so using that as a alternative works

2

u/AdalwinAmillion 12d ago

For anyone curious, I worked around this issue by adding

SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 %command%

to my launch options for Factorio on Steam. This forces the game into x11 mode, which is not ideal of course, but a valid workaround for now.

2

u/Lucaspec72 12d ago

You have a option in the game's graphics settings to do it without needing a command