Suddenly obviously all of my shortcuts have changed, STRG+P (instead of F10) opens a new window

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:02 am

Suddenly obviously all of my shortcuts have changed, STRG+P (instead of F10) opens a new window, although this is shown:

Is there a way to get my ones back?

horst.epp · Post by **horst.epp** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:23 am

Ctrl-P is the default hotkey for the Options screen
and still works fine here in the actual Everything 1.5
Your shortcuts will not change by itself.
What did you change or update ?
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Everything 1.5.0.1330a (x64)

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:26 am

What did you change or update ?

Actually I would say nothing (intentionally). Sorry, I do not have any idea what happened. Why is there STRG+P shown next to "Options" when it opens a new window?

Post by **void** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:27 am

Did you change your Windows input to a German keyboard?

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:28 am

Did you change your Windows input to a German keyboard?

No, I didn't (intentionally).

Why is there STRG+P shown next to "Options" although it opens a new window?

Post by **void** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:29 am

STRG = Ctrl in German.

There's no STRG text in Everything.

Everything is pulling this keyboard key name from Windows.

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:29 am

Ah, sorry, yes.

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:32 am

There's no STRG text in Everything.

Everything is pulling this keyboard key name from Windows.

OK, sorry, what does that mean in this case / at all?

Post by **void** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:35 am

Windows is reporting your keyboard Ctrl key name as STRG. (not Everything)

Please make sure your Windows keyboard settings are set correctly.

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:36 am

Well, OK, I understand, and what does that mean here?

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:39 am

Please make sure your Windows keyboard settings are set correctly.

OK, how could I do it? And regarding what settings?

I just remember some strange changes with some search options in Firefox, suddenly Amazon was the default serach engine and switched to englisch. About at the same time the shortcut changed in Everything, I guess. Could there be a connection?

Post by **void** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:45 am

Click the language text (eg: ENG) in the system tray and make sure your keyboard input is set correctly:

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:55 am

Ah, OK, that cannot have changed, I would have noticed it, because y would then be swapped with z.

Post by **void** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:58 am

Please try focusing Everything and checking your keyboard input is set correctly as above.

Each program can have independent settings.

Please try restarting Everything.

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 11:01 am

Please try focusing Everything and checking your keyboard input is set correctly as above.

So open it and, sorry, do what?

Please try restarting Everything.

Yes, I already did.

Post by **void** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 11:04 am

Focus Everything.

Click the language text (eg: ENG) in the system tray and make sure your keyboard input is set correctly:

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 11:10 am

Sorry, I cannot find such icon (ENG) in that tray.

I assume, I cannot use this command to close Everything after having made changes(?):
/exit-now

Post by **void** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 11:18 am

What does your system tray look like?

The text will be different for your locale. (maybe NLD? DEU?)

Have you turned off your language bar?
Press Windows logo key + I, to open Settings.
Click on Devices and select Typing on the left pane.
Click on Advanced keyboard settings.
Click on Language bar options.
Select the checkbox for Show additional Language bar icons in the taskbar and Show text labels on the Language bar.

Please don't use /exit-now
You will lose all changes to your settings and data.

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 11:56 am

Many thanks!

Very sorry, I cannot find any of those (even with German instructions) in this ugly OS.

May be such options are missing because here is no language pack available / there is not additional language downloaded here, sorry actually there should not even be anything to switch to:

I guess, I just leave it as it is. May be sometime it will work again (or not), at least the mouse still works, you can't really ask for more.

Sorry for the trouble!

Thank you very much!

Post by **void** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 12:03 pm

If the issue persists, please disable system key names:

Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
/get_key_name_text=0
Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
If successful, get_key_name_text=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

get_key_name_text

Post by **void** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 12:04 pm

Focus Everything.

Press Left Alt + Left Shift
Does this show the system change keyboard input dialog?

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 12:07 pm

If the issue persists, please disable system key names:

OK, I just did. Shown in status bar for seconds. Sorry, whatfor?

Does this show the system change keyboard input dialog?

No, it doesn't. Nothing seemed to happen.

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Mon Nov 28, 2022 12:11 pm

Suddenly this is shown:

When I enter
/get_key_name_text=0 + ENTER
this is shown:

/get_key_name_text=1 shows what the first photo shows.

Post by **void** » Tue Nov 29, 2022 10:45 am

You may need to restart Everything after changing get_key_name_text.

If get_key_name_text=1 works for you, keep it enabled.

get_key_name_text=1 is the default.

When get_key_name_text is disabled (get_key_name_text=0), Everything will not lookup keyboard key names from the system and just use internal English names for keys.

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Tue Nov 29, 2022 11:22 am

If get_key_name_text=1 works for you, keep it enabled.

Yes, OK, but it doesn't.

When get_key_name_text is disabled (get_key_name_text=0), Everything will not lookup keyboard key names from the system and just use internal English names for keys.

So when whatever has changed and caused the problem changes back to the state before the old shortcuts would not work anymore (with get_key_name_text=0?, like it is now)?

Post by **void** » Tue Nov 29, 2022 11:26 am

I'm not sure what has changed.
My guess is your keyboard driver.

Please try disabling get_key_name_text and restarting Everything:

Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
/get_key_name_text=0
Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
If successful, get_key_name_text=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.
Restart Everything:
Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
/restart
Press ENTER in your Everything search box.

Does the issue persist?

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Tue Nov 29, 2022 11:42 am

My guess is your keyboard driver.

So actually I already should have restarted the computer, maybe then it works again.

Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:
/restart

Does this save the db and / or the settings? Why not click "Exit"? Obviously it does, still running. Will take some time.

Post by **void** » Thu Dec 01, 2022 11:37 am

/restart

Does this save the db and / or the settings? Why not click "Exit"? Obviously it does, still running. Will take some time.

Yes, /restart will save your settings and database to disk and restart Everything.

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Thu Dec 01, 2022 11:43 am

OK, super, so I will make a bookmark for this, many thanks!

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