My macbook pro 2017 was working fine and I decided to wipe it with a damp cloth and now it wont work on the login screen. But I went to recovery mode terminal and all the keys work fine there. I must have turned on some setting that disabled my keyboard while wiping it. What could I have done wrong?
MacBook – Wiped the keyboard with a damp cloth and now the macbook pro 2017 keyboard cannot type on the login screen
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One possibility is to use keyremap4macbook, but this doesn't change the firmware keyboard layout and I don't like fiddling around with such tools if not necessary.
Try this...
Start your Mac from the recovery partition. Once it's booted, go to the Utilities menu item and select Terminal. Type in the following command (substituting the OS X startup disk name if different from Macintosh HD)...
rm /Volumes/"Macintosh HD"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist
...and then restart your MacBook.
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Best Answer
For my issue it was due to a speck of dust that got stuck in the command key. This was the reason why it wouldn't type in the login box but in the terminal.