Hey guys!

I was wondering if anyone else had problems with their ctrl key and F1? It seems very odd, but whenever I want to mass select my idle workers I cannot. I can hold ctrl and click on the portrait but I cannot hold ctrl and press F1.

Is there any fixes to this/is it even broken?

Syncker

Finland142 Posts

October 30 2011 04:44 GMT

Check your hotkeys its probably there

Kornholi0

Canada634 Posts

October 30 2011 04:46 GMT

I already did check my hotkeys, there is no option for "ctrl+F1" however I have seen pros use Ctrl+F1, and if logically, ctrl is to select everything, F1 is to select workers, it should work.

SoKHo

Korea (South)1081 Posts

October 30 2011 04:46 GMT

you can always redo your hotkeys. I changed mine from ctrl + f1 to ctrl alt for mass selecting workers. Since I have health bars always on, I thought that ctrl alt was way more efficient than ctrl f1. It takes some getting used to, but once you do its much better imo

This is Aru

United States91 Posts

October 30 2011 04:50 GMT

Is it a laptop keyboard or a full desktop keyboard?

Kornholi0

Canada634 Posts

October 30 2011 04:53 GMT

Its a Full Desktop Keyboard
Logitech G11

theBOOCH

United States832 Posts

October 30 2011 04:54 GMT

Isn't the idle worker command simply f1? I always used shift f1 to collect idle workers until I bound it to ` instead.

*Oh, I see. Yeah, the "control" command is just for selecting units in vision on the map. You can still hold shift and f1 or whatever you bind it to. It takes a tiny bit longer, but it works.

Kornholi0

Canada634 Posts

October 30 2011 04:59 GMT

But it isn't just my vision, if I have 30 idle workers, and I hold control and I click the portrait of the "idle workers" thing on the left side, I can select all 3 at once regardless of their position, however I cannot press ctrl+F1 which is relatively the same thing.

If anyone does use Ctrl+F1 could you please let me know how you do it?

CookieMaker

Canada880 Posts

October 30 2011 05:02 GMT

Did we confirm that your "idle worker hotkey" is actually F1?? That could still be the bane of your existence

Louuster

Canada2869 Posts

October 30 2011 05:03 GMT

#10

Check your hotkeys maybe you have ctrl + f1 as a bind for something else.

FakeDouble

Australia676 Posts

October 30 2011 05:25 GMT

#11

I remapped F1 to ` a month ago, and i use ctrl+` to select idle workers like you describe.

I did notice something a bit strange with the start of the new season, sometimes i would try to do ctrl+` and it wouldn't work the first time, but it went away after a few games. I think it's just a bit of lag and me letting go of ctrl a little bit too early.

I would first check your in-game hotkey setup, then check if your F1 key isn't broken or if you have something stuck under there.

Kornholi0

Canada634 Posts

October 30 2011 05:41 GMT

#12

I have Ctrl + F1 set as my set location 1, that probably was the problem I'll remap it and see if that fixes the issue, I just remember a long time ago I set it to Ctrl+F6 (or whatever) for the set location, and I still couldn't Ctrl+F1 my workers :| I'll try again.

MasonosaM

United States74 Posts

October 30 2011 05:59 GMT

#13

This is a little of topic but when I try do ctr + f1 or another kind of hotkey sometimes windows decides to go nuts and when I press 1-5 it will open whatever I have open in windows, and not the hotkeys I made. So I press 1 it will open firefox, 2 foobar etc... and im forced to leave the game. Anyone know what hotkey combination activates this and what disables it? Thanks for the help. Im using windows 7 also.

talontromper

United States258 Posts

October 30 2011 06:10 GMT

#14

What you are doing is bumping the windows key and based on what you are saying you have windows 7 because that is a shortcut for it. Just disable the windows key or try to b more careful about what keys you are pressing in the heat of battle. It's just something that you have to get used to, not hitting the windows key, I can't tell you how many games I've done this ( hitting the windows key). I now have sc2 in windowed full screen mode to make sure that my game doesn't lag. If you haven't enabled that feature under graphics settings you should. Hope this helps

Talon

TheGreenMachine

United States730 Posts

October 30 2011 06:14 GMT

#15

its in your hotkeys, you must have changed it at some point. I use ~ for my idle worker button, and ctrl+~ to select all idle workers.

Look under hotkeys and find "idle worker" it should tell you there.