interesting. neither of those symptoms make sense.

What do you see for those buttons in the keyboard overlay? (can be accessed from chrome://settings -> keyboard -> View keyboard shortcuts)

I think this might be a regression in settings.

In the keyboard overlay:  going left-to-right across the bottom row, I see alt, ctrl, spacebar, alt, ctrl.  (Which is also strange, because on my keyboard the key order is different:  ctrl, alt, spacebar, alt, ctrl.  Shouldn't the overlay and the keyboard either be the same, or consistently different?)

The Search key in the overlay appears as "esc".

#5: I can reproduce the keyboard shortcuts overlay strangeness -- it looks like the right-side alt and ctrl keys (on my US keyboard) always show alt and ctrl, even when those keys have been remapped. (When pressing one of those keys with the shortcuts overlay open, it acts like the remapped key.)

By the way, could you open Settings and run the following in the JS console (Ctrl+Shift+J):

    chrome.settingsPrivate.getPref('settings.language.xkb_remap_control_key_to', console.log.bind(console))

and paste the result? It should look something like:

Object {key: "settings.language.xkb_remap_control_key_to", type: "NUMBER", value: 1}

Also, do you ever use an external keyboard? Does attaching one change anything?

So first, I had to hit Alt+Shift+J rather than Ctrl+Shift+J to get to the JS console, which seems relevant for this bug ;)

What I get is:
Object {key: "settings.language.xkb_remap_control_key_to", type: "NUMBER", value: 2}

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I have not used an external keyboard on this pixel2 - I can try one later today.

When an external keyboard is plugged in, keyboard settings adds another row for Caps Lock (in addition to Search, Ctrl, Alt).  But I see the same behavior - all 4 appear to be mapped to "Search", and changes to them don't stick.

So weird. The prefs should just be mapped to the dropdowns. I don't really have any ideas, besides going in via Remote Desktop and trying to debug from there.

Let me know if you want to try that sometime.

Lowering to a P2 since it does not seem to be reproducible.

csosin@ - if you can still reproduce this on a recent image (M53+) can you check whether it is reproducible in the new settings: chrome://md-settings ?

Removing stale milestone label

Closing due to inactivity. Please re-open if this is still happening, and also submit a feedback report (Chrome menu => Help => Report an issue). Thanks.

For the record, this does seem to work now, at least with the new settings (chrome://md-settings).