Karabiner-Elements: Escape on TouchBar can not be mapped

I have tried to map the esc key of the TouchBar, but without any success.

Karabiner-EventViewer.app registers the key-up and key-down events on 0x29. But adding a mapping to it does not do anything. Escape functionality continues. Every other key can be mapped.

Tested on a 2018 MacBook Pro 13’’ with macOS 10.13.6 and Karabiner-Elements-12.1.0.

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Created 6 years ago
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Solution: Check “No Product Name” in “Devices” menu!

@jm3 I didn’t fix it cause it is not a bug at all. You need to check both the items listed in the “Devices” sub-table. See below As touch bar is recognized as a secondary keyboard, you need to make sure it is set to respond to Karabiner’s manipulation.

_Originally posted by @RoadToDream in https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/780#issuecomment-459202239_

vegerot on Feb 4, 2020

@caillou not sure if you’re having the same issue, but my escape mapping had no effect (escape would still act as escape) on the touch-bar until I enabled both devices as per https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/issues/780#issuecomment-459202239

Now I have successfully mapped caps_lock => escape and escape => caps_lock

owst on Sep 13, 2019

This issue is still existing. How can it be re-opened?

caillou on Jul 30, 2019

Can anyone clue me into, as mentioned in #780, how to restore ⌘-⌥-ESC when Karabiner Elements is running? That issue was auto-closed by the stale bot, but as far as I can see, it remains unresolved.

jm3 on Jan 30, 2019

having the same issue. I want to switch esc and grave_accent just because I use a lot esc and want to have some physical feedback. But it failed to map esc to grave_accent.

Hope to get some useful answer

ShangyinGao on Jan 29, 2019

I’m having the same issue on a new MacBook Pro – I had the touchbar esc => right_command mapping working on an older MacBook (2016) that was also running Mojave, so not sure what has changed, if anything.

Super annoying because the touchbar escape key moves around and creates all sorts of havoc.

aaroncraigongithub on Jan 9, 2019

Same issue here. Also tried Complex modifications, nothing works for escape related modifications.

JakimLi on Oct 19, 2018